Five Tampa Bay Rays players decline to wear LGBTQ+ logo on uniform during Pride Night celebration

[Right_in_Virginia]

Five Tampa Bay Rays players decline to wear LGBTQ+ logo on uniform during Pride Night celebration
CBS,  Jun 6, 2022

At least five players on the Tampa Bay Rays roster opted not to wear a patch the team added to their uniforms intended to celebrate Pride month in Saturday's 3-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox (box score). During the team's 16th annual Pride Night celebration Rays caps and uniforms had logos colored in the style of the modern LGBTQ+ pride flag, but not everyone in the clubhouse chose to participate.

Pitchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs and Ryan Thompson were among the players who did not wear the patch on their uniforms and chose to wear the team's standard caps for the June 4 home game.

Adam was selected by the organization to speak on behalf of the players who opted out, and called it a "faith-based decision" and that the decision wasn't "judgmental," per the Times:

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/five-tampa-bay-rays-players-decline-to-wear-lgbtq-logo-on-uniform-during-pride-night-celebration/amp/

[Right_in_Virginia]

There was a time when a team would be forced to explain embracing LGBTQ+

[Hoodat]

Pitchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs and Ryan Thompson were among the players who did not wear the patch on their uniforms and chose to wear the team's standard caps for the June 4 home game.

Good for them.

[catfish1957]

Just another example of good normal people fighting back against this woke shit.

This trend will accelerate and the Alphabet puke freaks will laungish in the shadows where they belong.

[mountaineer]

We're 6 days in, and I'm already sick to death of this pride month perversion.

[rustynail]

Don't talk about the Monkey Pox.

[Wingnut]

Professional sports celebrating militant fagottry sure makes me want to go out to the old ballpark for a gay old time.

[Kamaji]

Professional sports celebrating militant fagottry sure makes me want to go out to the old ballpark for a gay old time.

[SZonian]

"Adam was selected by the organization to speak on behalf of the players who opted out..."

Unless the players wanted to voice their positions, then why? /r  (It is to attempt to shame or bully them into compliance.)

I can only surmise it was also to distance the organization from these men of moral conviction.