SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 6.13.2026
It’s no wonder the one time historic San Francisco Giants have fallen on hard times and are near cellar occupants in the National League. It’s karma.
It appears intolerance has now reached deep into the Giants.
Several Giants are now openly showing their intolerance and hostility towards the Gay community and its lifestyle
While these well paid professional athletes certainly have a constitutional right to public display their intolerant behavior, the fact this is happening in San Francisco should give all enlightened and tolerant people something to think about.
Fortunately, most of the Giants don’t openly brag about their 21st century intolerance.
Excerpted from SF Gate 6.13.2026 – Alex Simon Sports Editor
If Landen Roupp and the other Giants were writing this message on their hats every single night, that wouldn’t be as big a deal. But to do it on the only night the team celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community sure makes it appear to be a protest, whether they will say it is or not.
On Pride Night at Oracle Park, with the San Francisco Giants wearing special edition hats to represent the LGBTQ+ community, multiple players wrote Bible verses next to the team’s rainbow logo, while one chose to forgo wearing the cap entirely.
Given the volume of Giants pitchers who either didn’t wear the rainbow-colored hat or wrote a Bible verse on it, it sure appears to have been a protest effort from multiple players.
Starting pitcher Landen Roupp and reliever JT Brubaker wrote the Bible verse Genesis 9:12-16 on the caps they wore Friday night, the same passage that has been displayed by other players on their Pride Night hats during games.
“Kind of what the verse says, the rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant to us and us as believers stand firm in that,” Roupp said
Giants starter Landon Roupp and relievers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker had verses from the Bible written on their hats, with Roupp and Brubaker writing on the front panels of the hat next to the rainbow-colored SF logo, while Walker wrote his on the side of his hat. Left-handed reliever Sam Hentges didn’t wear the rainbow hat at all, sticking with the usual orange SF logo hat that the team otherwise wears.
After the Giants lost 5-1, Roupp told reporters a similar line to what Nick Ahmed said two years prior and added, “There’s no hate at all. It’s just what I stand for and what I stand on.”
https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/sf-giants-pitchers-pride-protest-22303677.php
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