{"id":1506267,"date":"2022-06-07T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506267"},"modified":"2022-06-07T10:05:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:05:39","slug":"gay-pro-baseball-player-loses-it-over-rays-refusing-to-wear-lgbtq-pride-night-logo-trashes-faith-concerns-deems-players-homophobic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gay-pro-baseball-player-loses-it-over-rays-refusing-to-wear-lgbtq-pride-night-logo-trashes-faith-concerns-deems-players-homophobic\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Pro-Baseball Player Loses It Over Rays Refusing To Wear LGBTQ \u2018Pride Night\u2019 Logo, Trashes Faith Concerns, Deems Players Homophobic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgay-pro-baseball-player-loses-it-over-rays-refusing-to-wear-lgbtq-pride-night-logo-trashes-faith-concerns-deems-players-homophobic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Openly gay pro-baseball player Bryan Ruby is outraged over some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/multiple-tampa-bay-rays-players-refuse-to-wear-pride-night-logos-citing-religious-reasons\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> players\u2019 personal decision not to wear rainbow-colored logos on their uniform for Pride Night, in at least one case expressly for \u201cfaith-based\u201d reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>Ruby, who has played in the minor leagues but is reportedly taking June off, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/mlb\/sad-and-infuriating-openly-gay-pro-baseball-player-speaks-out-on-rays-players-stance\/ar-AAY9bbJ?cvid=98960d3e414b4ff48d67ddc3c2714a30\">trashed<\/a> the players in an interview with USA TODAY Sports, claiming their actions make other gay people feel like \u201csecond-class citizens\u201d and are using Jesus to shield their homophobia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt always baffles me when guys use Jesus\u00a0as their excuse to discriminate,\u201d Ruby told the news outlet.\u00a0\u201cLike, wasn\u2019t Jesus the guy who preached \u2018Love Thy Neighbor.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t about religion,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis is about being a good teammate. When guys go out of their way to make a point of opposing Pride Night, they\u2019re sending a clear message that people like me just aren\u2019t welcome in baseball. It\u2019s a reminder that even on the one night we get to be proud of ourselves at the ballpark, we are still second-class citizens. It\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>Rays pitcher Jason Adam recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/rays\/2022\/06\/04\/most-but-not-all-rays-show-their-lgbtq-support\/\">told<\/a> the Tampa Bay Times he refused to wear the rainbow-colored logo after making a \u201cfaith-based decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>\u201cIt\u2019s a hard decision,\u201d the pitcher said.\u00a0\u201cBecause ultimately we all said what we want is them to know that all are welcome and loved here. But when we put it on our bodies, I think a lot of guys decided that it\u2019s just a lifestyle that maybe \u2014 not that they look down on anybody or think differently \u2014 it\u2019s just that maybe we don\u2019t want to encourage it if we believe in Jesus, who\u2019s encouraged us to live a lifestyle that would abstain from that behavior, just like (Jesus) encourages me as a heterosexual male to abstain from sex outside of the confines of marriage. It\u2019s no different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruby continued to fume about players\u2019 personal decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sends a very clear message, and that message is: LGBTQ people are not welcome here,\u201d he claimed. \u201cA lot of guys just don\u2019t get that they\u2019ve always had, and will continue to have, gay teammates. Such antiquated language and behavior actively hurts the team. It\u2019s hard enough to be gay in baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t help but notice that for the 146th consecutive year, there are zero openly gay players in Major League Baseball,\u201d Ruby added. \u201cAnd when your own teammates could publicly gesture that you don\u2019t belong there, it\u2019s damn near impossible to succeed in the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The athlete also took a swing at Rays management for suggesting no divide was brewing on the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder if Rays management would parrot their completely bogus message of supporting \u2018diversity and inclusivity\u2019 in the organization if Rays players flat out refused to wear number 42 on Jackie Robinson day,\u201d Ruby said. \u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, Pride Nights are great for the fan base and surrounding community, but they do very little to address the situation in the locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen your teammates go out of their way to indicate they don\u2019t accept you, it can be absolutely crushing, and obviously pretty damn hard to suit up and play well,\u201d he continued. \u201cWhat does it say to all the young minor leaguers dreaming of one day getting a shot in the big leagues? That once you get there, you can live \u00a0your dream but only at the cost of hiding your authentic self from the world? It\u2019s both sad and infuriating to know most other guys like me are relegated to walking on eggshells in the shadows of a culture still eerily reminiscent of the \u2018Don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019 world we supposedly moved on from over a decade ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Openly gay pro-baseball player Bryan Ruby is outraged over some Tampa Bay Rays players\u2019 personal decision not to wear rainbow-colored logos on their uniform for Pride Night, in at least one case expressly for \u201cfaith-based\u201d reasoning. Ruby, who has played in the minor leagues but is reportedly taking June off, trashed the players in an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1506328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}