(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) As professional sports leagues continue to capitulate to the far-left, the Texas Ranges remain the only Major League Baseball team that has not hosted a “pride” night, the Texas Scorecard reported.
Though the Rangers attempted to host an informal LGBT celebration in 2003, the event saw major backlash, and the Rangers have avoided the topic.
Since that time, Rangers COO Neil Leibman has commented on the topic, noting that they have chosen to promote pride in secrecy instead.
“With respect to Pride Night, we reached out to the Resource Center and said what can we do internally,” Leibman said in a 2020 interview.
“We immediately adopted some changes they suggested to be more inclusive in hiring practices. I think that’s more meaningful than just saying, ‘OK, we had a Pride Night.’”
Despite the organization’s internal capitulation, Rafael McDonnell, an activist with the LGBTQ Resource Center, complained about the Rangers’ lack of open Pride celebration.
“They’ve made some efforts, but it’s very much a start. Compared to their peer professional sports teams, they have some distance to go.”
The Rangers’ refusal to outwardly celebrate the “LGBT community” is one of the few bright spots in Major League Baseball these days.
Along side the Los Angeles Dodgers controversy, several MLB teams have recently released players for their supposedly anti-LGBT views.
The Toronto Blue Jays, for example, jettisoned pitcher Anthony Bass after he reposted a video on Twitter that his team deemed “hateful.”
When asked whether the video he reposted was a problem because it described the LGBT movement as “demonic,” Bass declined to play into the media’s narrative.
“I do not,” he said. “That’s why I posted it originally. When I look back at it, I can see how people would view it that way and that’s why I was apologetic.”
According to the former Blue Jay, he should be permitted to hold and express his views without the risk of being fired.
“I stand by my personal beliefs,” he added. “Everyone is entitled to their personal beliefs, right?”
