{"id":1506516,"date":"2022-06-07T12:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506516"},"modified":"2022-06-07T12:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T16:49:30","slug":"religious-exemption-bs-espn-host-scolds-bigoted-mlb-players-for-refusing-to-wear-pride-night-logo-on-uniforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/religious-exemption-bs-espn-host-scolds-bigoted-mlb-players-for-refusing-to-wear-pride-night-logo-on-uniforms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Religious Exemption BS\u2019: ESPN Host Scolds \u2018Bigoted\u2019 MLB Players For Refusing To Wear Pride Night Logo On Uniforms"},"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\">36<\/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%2Freligious-exemption-bs-espn-host-scolds-bigoted-mlb-players-for-refusing-to-wear-pride-night-logo-on-uniforms%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=1506516&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>ESPN\u2019s Sarah Spain this week slammed the handful of MLB\u00a0players who refused to wear rainbow-colored pride night logos on their uniform as \u201cbigoted,\u201d and mocked religious reservations as \u201cBS,\u201d or bulls***.<\/p>\n<p>At least five\u00a0<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, including pitchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs, and Ryan Thompson, refused to wear the pride-themed logo on their person, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/rays\/2022\/06\/04\/most-but-not-all-rays-show-their-lgbtq-support\/\">according<\/a> to a report from the Tampa Bay Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Pride\u2019 is about inclusion, so you don\u2019t love them or you don\u2019t welcome them if you\u2019re not willing to wear the patch,\u201d Spain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U6IzuuzY0LY\">claimed<\/a> on ESPN airwaves.<\/p>\n<p>The host then seemed to target pitcher Jason Adam for citing his faith to opt-out of the logo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalling it a \u2018lifestyle\u2019 reveals to me that you\u2019ve done not even a modicum of research or understanding on this topic,\u201d Spain said, adding \u201cwhat tends to happen when a privileged class isn\u2019t affected by things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not just about baseball,\u201d she continued. \u201cThat religious exemption BS (bulls***) which is used in sport and otherwise also allows for people to be denied health care, jobs, apartments, children, prescriptions, all sorts of rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to stop tiptoeing around it because we\u2019re trying to protect people who are trying to be bigoted from asking for them to be exempt from it, when the very people that they are bigoted against are suffering the consequences,\u201d Spain closed her rant.<\/p>\n<p>Adam said his decision was a difficult one and cited his faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a hard decision,\u201d the pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gay-pro-baseball-player-loses-it-over-rays-refusing-to-wear-lgbtq-pride-night-logo-trashes-faith-concerns-deems-players-homophobic\">said<\/a>.\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>David Dennis Jr., on ESPN\u2019s \u201cAround the Horn\u201d alongside Spain, deemed the logo issue a distraction but urged people to speak out about alleged injustices like the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is no \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/floridas-lgbtq-bill-is-being-wildly-misrepresented-here-are-the-facts\">Don\u2019t Say Gay<\/a>\u201d legislation.<\/p>\n<p>But Dennis was likely referring to Florida\u2019s parental rights legislation that bars any type of sexual or gender identity instruction from being taught to students in kindergarten up to third grade.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH (relevant comments begin around the 15-minute mark):<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><em>H\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/espn-sarah-spain-rays-bigots-pride-patch\/\">Outkick<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gay-pro-baseball-player-loses-it-over-rays-refusing-to-wear-lgbtq-pride-night-logo-trashes-faith-concerns-deems-players-homophobic\">Gay Pro-Baseball Player Loses It Over Rays Refusing To Wear LGBTQ \u2018Pride Night\u2019 Logo, Trashes Faith Concerns, Deems Players\u00a0Homophobic<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN\u2019s Sarah Spain this week slammed the handful of MLB\u00a0players who refused to wear rainbow-colored pride night logos on their uniform as \u201cbigoted,\u201d and mocked religious reservations as \u201cBS,\u201d or bulls***. At least five\u00a0Tampa Bay Rays players, including pitchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs, and Ryan Thompson, refused to wear the pride-themed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1506625,"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-1506516","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\/1506516","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=1506516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}