Mets fly the Pride flag during the National Anthem on Flag Day
The New York Mets flew the Pride flag during the National Anthem on Saturday before their match against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Video footage of the pre-game ceremony shows the Jumbotron displaying the Pride flag while the Star Spangled Banner was sung.
While the move excited observers on the Left, many Americans expressed outrage, saying it was disrespectful to Old Glory. Some netizens, like actor James Woods, pointed out that Saturday was Flag Day, a holiday honoring the American flag. Fans are now calling to boycott MLB over the “sickening stunt.”
“The MLB New York Mets had their Pride day today,” wrote one X user. “No American flag, just a Pride flag. Time for all of us to give MLB the middle finger and refuse to buy any MLB tickets or merchandise. Cut MLB off 100%. Enough is enough.”
At another point during the game, the Jumbotron zoomed in on two men kissing.
A protest against the rainbow
But one baseball player has made headlines for pushing back against MLB’s LGBT agenda.
LA Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw sparked a buzz during a game Friday night, which was “Pride Night” for several MLB baseball teams. In observance of Pride Night, the athletes were instructed to wear baseball caps featuring a rainbow-hued Los Angeles Dodgers logo. On his cap, Kershaw wrote “GEN 9:12-16” beside the logo, a reference to God’s promise in Genesis that a rainbow is the sign of a covenant between Him and humanity:
12. And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant that I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations.
13. I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
14. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,
15. I will remember My covenant that is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.
Fans cheered Kershaw for his action, which they recognized as a protest against the LGBT movement’s appropriation of the rainbow symbol.
