{"id":1507738,"date":"2022-06-08T12:49:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507738"},"modified":"2022-06-08T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:49:28","slug":"rays-pitcher-who-did-wear-pride-night-logo-defends-teammates-for-opting-out-different-beliefs-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rays-pitcher-who-did-wear-pride-night-logo-defends-teammates-for-opting-out-different-beliefs-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays Pitcher Who Did Wear \u2018Pride Night\u2019 Logo Defends Teammates For Opting Out: \u2018Different Beliefs Exist\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Frays-pitcher-who-did-wear-pride-night-logo-defends-teammates-for-opting-out-different-beliefs-exist%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=1507738&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 class=\"mol-para-with-font\">MLB pitcher Nick Anderson on Monday publicly defended five of his <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> teammates who opted out of wearing rainbow-colored Pride Night logos on their uniforms and caps, citing religious reasons.<\/p>\n<p>At least five players, including pitchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs, and Ryan Thompson, refused to wear the <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/RaysBaseball\/status\/1533176854768656387\">pride-themed logo<\/a> 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>\u201cIt\u2019s astonishing to me how people don\u2019t understand that different beliefs exist,\u201d Anderson blasted critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd because you have different beliefs, in no way, shape, or form does that mean you look down on that individual or think they are lesser,\u201d he added. \u201cYou can love everyone and have differing beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s astonishing to me how people don\u2019t understand that different beliefs exist. And because you have different beliefs, in no way, shape, or form does that mean you look down on that individual or think they are lesser. You can love everyone and have differing beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Anderson (@ando24_nick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ando24_nick\/status\/1533851419668774914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anderson posted another public message after receiving some backlash for defending his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I say differing beliefs, I\u2019m talking about the people who believe everyone should wear something and if you don\u2019t, you should burn and are a terrible person or whatever name you want to call them,\u201d the athlete wrote. \u201cI also was saying that just because you don\u2019t wear maybe a said \u2018patch\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean you think those people should burn and are terrible people. Come on everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anderson went on to say that he believes people are born gay and condemned \u201chomophobia,\u201d hitting critics for twisting his words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never once said I thought gay people weren\u2019t born gay,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOr that homophobia was right.\u00a0So to all of you who are trying to find any little thing to twist and make someone look bad for saying something that they never said, whatever you got going on in your life making you this way, just know that it will all be okay! Much love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xNJ3AIpGS0\">pic.twitter.com\/xNJ3AIpGS0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Anderson (@ando24_nick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ando24_nick\/status\/1533995544644833282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adam, speaking on behalf of the other four players who opted out, said their decision was a difficult one and cited faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a hard decision,\u201d Adam\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\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLB pitcher Nick Anderson on Monday publicly defended five of his Tampa Bay Rays teammates who opted out of wearing rainbow-colored Pride Night logos on their uniforms and caps, citing religious reasons. At least five players, including pitchers Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs, and Ryan Thompson, refused to wear the pride-themed logo &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1508871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507738","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\/1507738","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=1507738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}