Ethics Heroes: The SF Giants’ Three Civil Disobedience Practitioners

The San Francisco Giants asked for this controversy; Major League Baseball asked for this controversy; LGTBQ+ culture bullies asked for it too. They got it. Good.

Three Giants pitchers, Landen Roupp, who started last Friday’s game against the Cubs, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker, who also appeared in the game, have been officially reprimanded by MLB, which notified the players that similar behavior “would not be tolerated in the future.”

The three pitchers had Bible verses written on their caps. Roupp’s cap read “Gen 9:12-16” with the writing reaching the “Pride” logo on his cap. It was “Pride Night,” when Major League Baseball forces its players to express a political and social position with which they may not personally agree. The verse in question reads like this:

It is not an anti-homosexuality passage, but then any Bible reference on Pride Night might be seen as subversive.

“The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,” MLB’s chief communications officer Pat Courtney told “The Athletic.” Later, the office added as clarification,

One thought on “Ethics Heroes: The SF Giants’ Three Civil Disobedience Practitioners

  1. the obvious analogy is Colin Kapernick.

    is he an ethics hero for not standing during the national anthem?

    is standing a form of compelled speech?

    is it just that he whined about the fallout from his decision

    is Kapernick’s case analogous or not?

    -Jut

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