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Is MLB Treating Christians Differently? Hawley Demands Answers

Is there room in Major League Baseball for faithful Christian players?

Last week, several San Francisco Giants players wore the Pride-themed baseball cap during the team’s Pride Night, but with a twist: They wrote Bible verses on their caps referencing Genesis verses related to God’s creation of the rainbow.

Now Major League Baseball is taking aim at those players.

“The writing on the cap violates our rules and, consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,” said Pat Courtney, chief communications officer for the league, in a statement Monday to Outsports, a website that boasts it’s “Proudly LGBTQ Owned and Operated.”

But one conservative senator is raising the alarm about whether MLB has a double standard.

“The league’s claim that it merely forbids ‘writing of any kind’ on its uniforms does not survive a cursory review of the league’s recent history,” writes Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in a Tuesday letter to Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred.

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“In 2020, MLB itself turned its uniforms and its fields into a billboard for political and social messages. It created jersey patches reading ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘United for Change.’ It authorized ‘BLM’ to be stenciled onto pitching mounds. And it suspended its own equipment rules so that players could display progressive political slogans on their cleats,” Hawley added.

What does MLB think it’s doing penalizing players for their Christian faith? They owe us some answers. Right now. pic.twitter.com/yDPmjC6SMZ— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) June 16, 2026

What does MLB think it’s doing penalizing players for their Christian faith? They owe us some answers. Right now. pic.twitter.com/yDPmjC6SMZ

Hawley, who notes in his letter that the league “enjoys a sweeping, judicially manufactured exemption from the federal antitrust laws,” doesn’t mince words about his concerns in the letter, which requests Manfred respond to a series of questions.

“The league went........

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