Major League Baseball puts itself in bull’s-eye of new federal discrimination investigationby Bob Unruh World Net Daily

Major League Baseball, like a lot of other leftist institutions and organizations, promotes the LGBT lifestyle choices adopted by a small minority of Americans.

Its teams create rainbow-themed jerseys or hats or whatever, and then demand that players wear them, to promote the team’s ideologies.

Some players have declined. In fact, a minor league team was forced to forfeit a game this week when the players simply rejected the gay-promoting jerseys.

Others, in the MLB, have adopted a different strategy. They wrote a Bible verse reference on the gay-promoting caps.

The reference was from Genesis where God describes how he uses the rainbow as a promise not to flood the earth again. And of course it addresses the “rainbow” used by the leftists.

The MLB threatened those players with punishment, and now is in hot water.

The Department of Justice has entered the fight brought by MLB against its Christian players.

The agency’s Civil Rights Division has referred the league to federal investigators over warnings issued to San Francisco Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their “Pride Night” caps.

Among the players participating in a protest are Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker.

The MLB immediately warned that “further writing” could result in “discipline.”

Of course, the league previously promoted the Black Lives Matter agenda, and annually mandates the promotions for LGBT lifestyle choices.

Fox said, “In a June 18 letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced that her division had referred the matter to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ‘for further investigation.'”

The suspicion is that MLB violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

“The Civil Rights Act prohibits MLB and its franchises from unreasonably burdening the rights of players with religious objections to serving as the League’s vehicle for pro-Pride messages,” said Dhillon.

She warned the league: “This double standard – under which players may not inscribe Bible verses on hats for one game only but may wear ‘Black Lives Matter’ patches for one game only — calls MLB’s true motives into question and raises serious concerns about MLB’s compliance with Title VII.”

MLB also has learned fans aren’t pleased.

The Texas Rangers don’t have a “Pride Night,” and Terry, a fan, said, “I’m so thankful that the Rangers are recognizing family, faith, and everything good about this country.”

Todd from Waxahachie, Texas, agreed with the players’ faith message and felt the league should be supporting free speech, Fox said.

“I think it’s about re-centering on what a rainbow means; It’s a promise from God that he would never flood the earth again,” he said. “So, I think that it also supports freedom of speech as well.”

“Everyone has their own belief system, their own faith system, whether it’s for Pride Month or for religious beliefs,” Emily from Rockwall, Texas, said. “And I think we all should be allowed to support what we believe in.”

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh’s articles here.