Franklin Graham Voices Support For Rays Pitchers Who Refused Pride Insignia

Five Tampa Bay Rays pitchers chose not to wear pride-colored insignia on their uniforms in Saturday’s game against the Chicago White Sox, which was also the Rays’ annual Pride Night. These men have been ridiculed by many for choosing not to wear pride-colored insignia on their uniforms. However, it isn’t everyone who has thrown them under the bus.

Samaritan’s Purse and Billy Graham Evangelistic Association CEO Franklin Graham said through a Facebook post on Monday that he fully supports Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs and Ryan Thompson for their decision to not sacrifice their beliefs in order to go along with the flow of culture.

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“Followers of Jesus Christ must love everyone, but also stand with the truth of God’s Word and share that truth with a lost and dying world,” Franklin said in the post.

The well-constructed response of ESPN commentator Sarah Spain was not sufficient to discredit these five men.

[This] is what tends to happen when frivolous class isn’t affected by things,” Spain said. People can be denied access to health care, employment, housing, prescriptions and all other rights through the religious exemption BS.

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.

It seems like Spain ignores the well-balanced explanation that Adam provided for the men’s decision to take the action that they did. Adam does not say that LGBT people are inferior to them or think these individuals are subhuman. He just said they wanted to keep their faith the most important thing.

If they are offended at the kind, honest, and humble response of these men, it is their fault for being immature. Graham acknowledged the admirable actions of these men and encouraged us to do so.