Wed Jun 8, 2022 – 4:58 pm EDTWed Jun 8, 2022 – 5:04 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The five Tampa Bay Rays pitchers who because of their Christian faith declined to wear rainbow-themed insignias on their hats and jerseys during the team’s “Pride Night” celebration last weekend are being attacked as “bigots” by liberal commentators.
“Oh for God’s sake,” tweeted USA Today Sports columnist Nancy Armour.
“These folks who bastardize religion to suit their bigotry would do well to actually READ the New Testament. I’d recommend starting with Matthew,” she sneered.
“That religious exemption BS is used in sports and otherwise also allows for people to be denied health care, jobs, apartments, children, prescriptions, all sorts of rights,” averred ESPN commentator Sarah Spain on the sports network’s popular “Around the Horn” talk show.
“We have to stop tiptoeing around it because we’re 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 you say trying to be bigoted,” she continued.
“Got all that?” asked OutKick’s Bobby Burack, in a column for Fox Sports. “Spain
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