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Baseball players embrace true meaning of God’s rainbow

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The gay rights movement adopted the rainbow as its symbol several decades ago.

The idea was that just like a rainbow contains all of the colors, our society should welcome every kind of person and preference.

But there is one kind of person that is evidently not welcome: a Christian who believes the Bible means what it says.

The baseball players on the San Francisco Giants who decline to participate in Pride month, have often cited the Bible on their caps. Their chosen passage: Genesis 9:12-16.

“And God said: ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations.

‘I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 

‘It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 

‘and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 

‘The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.’”

Those words tell the true story of the origin of the rainbow.

God placed the rainbow in the heavens after the Flood, when he had........

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