The gay rights movement adopted the rainbow as its symbol several decades ago.

The idea was that just like a rainbow contains all of the colors, our society should welcome every kind of person and preference.

But there is one kind of person that is evidently not welcome: a Christian who believes the Bible means what it says.

The baseball players on the San Francisco Giants who decline to participate in Pride month, have often cited the Bible on their caps. Their chosen passage: Genesis 9:12-16.

“And God said: ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations.

‘I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 

‘It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 

‘and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 

‘The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.’”

Those words tell the true story of the origin of the rainbow.

God placed the rainbow in the heavens after the Flood, when he had punished the world for its evil ways. 

It was a sign of a new beginning. God knew that the world would not be free from sin, but he also knew he could not keep destroying it and starting over.

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Instead of destruction, there would be redemption. 

For Jews, that redemption would come through repentance, and the eventual journey to the Promised Land of Israel.

For Christians, that ultimate redemption would come through Christ, who forgives the sins of those who seek Him.

All of that is foretold in the rainbow. 

The baseball players who protest are not standing up against someone. They are standing up for their basic rights: freedom of expression, and freedom of religion.

They did not seek this confrontation. Yet they have risen to this test of their faith.

Freedom of expression, and freedom of religion, are not only American privileges. These are rights that were granted by God before by codified by the Founding Fathers in our governing documents.

Stronger, still, than that truth is the truth of the Bible, which makes it very clear that God is the designer and creator of mankind, male and female, and that in doing so he has built within us the passion and the ability to express truth. 

But not all situations represent the truth. Those in professional baseball who support Pride month demand their freedoms and their rights to profess and  proclaim what they believe in. They want to make a statement and to influence culture. Yet why isn’t that same liberty allowed for those who stand for Christ? 

There is a gross hypocrisy in our culture today that seeks to indoctrinate and to manipulate those who may have a opposing view. Christians are told to get in line and shape up, and warned that they will be disciplined for not agreeing with whoever is in charge. That is the very opposite of tolerance, and exposes that Pride month is not about accepting everyone, but imposing a new set of beliefs.

The baseball players who declined to participate in Pride month, or who cited the Bible, have used their freedom of expression and their God-given opportunity to announce truth. 

It’s a sad day in America when we have lost the ability to tolerate someone else’s view. And it is becoming clear that the LBGTQ+ agenda cannot tolerate the Judeo-Christian world view of God’s permanent design.

Pastor Jack Hibbs is president of The Real Life Network.