FRC: Major Sports Leagues “Dumped” Pride Month

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website:

While pro sports scales back its usual Pride celebrations, Joe Biden is swinging for the rainbow fences. Despite the subdued approach to June everywhere else, this White House seems intent on bombarding Americans with LGBT messaging from every federal platform.

It’s quite a contrast to the rest of the cultural landscape, where not just major brands but major leagues are making the conscious decision to sit this month out, desperate to protect their profits from the consumer outrage that’s burned down brands like Bud Light and Target.

The president’s over-the-top approach to Pride comes as America’s five major sports leagues pushed the LGBT holiday to the sidelines. Unlike past years, the rainbows that used to color the logos of the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLS for the month are gone.

Only Major League Baseball dipped its toes into the 2024 Pride waters — a brief experiment that they abandoned when fans went berserk. After its “Baseball is everyone’s game” post on the morning of June 1, users exploded in the comments — a flood of opposition so great that Yahoo! Sports did an entire write-up of the PR disaster.

Read the full article.

The headline of the linked article reads “Major Sports Leagues Dump Pride.”

In the replies to the MLB tweet below, you will indeed find thousands of memes claiming that the league is celebrating pedophilia and grooming. But the tweet remains up, contrary to the FRC’s claim that it was “abandoned.”

Also despite the FRC’s claim, Outsports reports that 29 out of 30 MLB teams have Pride Nights scheduled for this month. The only holdout so far is the Texas Rangers.

Even Fox News notes that 21 NFL teams have celebrated Pride Month in social media posts.