I quite agree with the OutSports writer notinh that this small band of players, in ripping the Pride logos off their uniforms and issuing statements condemning LGBTQ people as sinners, undid all the good the Rays were trying to accomplish.

The headlines yesterday were filled with news about this, and not news about a professional baseball team welcoming LGBTQ fans. All the news was focused on Christian baseball players calling us sinners and deeming us unworthy of their welcoming support.

Most of the news simply repeated their assertions that being LGBTQ contravenes Christianity and that Christians have a moral duty not to support LGBTQ people.

I didn't read a single story, with the noteworthy exception of the one in OutSports, that mentioned that very many active Christians like you are LGBTQ.

Not only did these baseball players drive a narrative that you can't be an LGBTQ Christian, which is obviously false, but almost all major media let them get away with it.

The Presbyterian Church of Canada just offered a major apology to LGBTQ people for what it now considers to be theologically invalid condemnation and mistreatment.

But we didn't see anything like that in major news reporting. Instead, we saw the unfounded assertions of six baseball players that Christianity condemns us.

Obviously, the Christian Post did a smear job. That's just what they do. But AP and major independent newspapers were just about as bad.