There Is NOTHING Jesus Said That Was Anti-LBGTQ*

By now many of you have heard about the outcry about three Giants players writing references to scripture on their special Pride celebration caps for the game on Friday.  If you have not, this is a free link to the excellent article written by Grant Brisbee, who is this century's gift to Giants coverage.

What surprised me though, is that the reader comment count reaches well into the 4000s.   Most articles on the Athletic struggle to reach 100, and even when the Warriors writers spread out some fresh chum in the form of an article on Draymond Green, that still hits somewhere in the 400s.

The other thing that surprised me (first) was that this had happened right under my nose.  I was at the game, and while I had excellent club level seats thanks to my buddy Chris, this fabulous baseball-watching view does not give me the close-up look at people's caps that the TV audience got.

But this blog post is not going to be about the legitimacy and respect the Pride celebration deserves, or why it matters to minority populations to be seen and recognized even if in the form of a promotion that sells tickets.  I'm going to assume  you know all that.

No, it's going to be about the absolutely idiotic arguments made by a frighteningly vast number of vocal Americans who are impervious to logic because they simply can't follow an argument that requires critical thought.  

First of all, there's the classic "What about their freedom of speech?" argument.  This doesn't apply because what the Constitution (allegedly) protects is people being arrested by the government for expressing personal views.   There is no protection promised for people doing something offensive in public and catching flak for it!  You don't get to tell a bunch of innocent people you think that they're sick or worse and get free protection from hearing the clap back.  What makes it worse is that these people know this.  They know damn well they can't go up to strangers and say whatever they want and hide behind "Freedom of speech" for protection.

Second, they try to justify this "Free speech" because it's a deeply-held religious belief.  Guess what... deeply held religious beliefs are not inherently harmless or good.  Many many horrific tragedies have been carried out throughout history for religious reasons.  There are bloody wars going on right now in the name of piety.  

But the pinnacle of hypocrisy is they think that they're the ones standing up for freedom.  The descendants of the very people who came to America to gain religious freedom now want to tell people who they can love, what gender they have to be, and what rights they have over their own fertilized zygote.  Hell, you think taxation is an invasion of your privacy; it's a picnic compared to your violation of other people's freedoms.

And what principle are they even standing on?  We know there's nothing in the Bible that condemns Queer Nation because if there were, they'd be putting it on t-shirts.  It's so against what Jesus stood for that after finding nothing in the New Testament, they have to pull out some ambiguous language from the Old Testament, aka the Tanakh (the Torah is one of the three sections).   Even the verses they cited are pretty unclear on the condemning.  

Every day we have to face the fact that being right logically or morally does not mean you win a dispute.  And it's really disheartening to know that the idiocy that has been cultivated by some does carry the weight of numbers.  Big, stupid, empathy-free numbers.  

It's an embarrassment to Giants management, particularly the rookie manager Tony Vitello that they did not stop this fiasco before it started.  

I'm going to just finish with another photo from the game... this one of a drag queen presiding over the renewal of vows for five couples before the game.  I am pleased to say that as far as I could tell, the fans in the house were in full support of this as well as the unusually gay Kiss Cam.