San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Landen Roupp wrote “Gen 9:12-16” on his Pride Night hatMissouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is drawing a line in the sand against Major League Baseball’s apparent effort to pressure players into conforming to left-wing Pride Month activism.As The Gateway Pundit first reported last week, San Francisco Giants pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker refused to silently participate in the league’s Pride Night spectacle.They wore the mandated rainbow-themed caps but boldly wrote Genesis 9:12-16 on them.When asked about it, San Francisco Giants pitchers Landen Roupp said the verse is “about God’s covenant and a promise that He makes to us.”“It’s something I believe in and I stand firm in that,” Roupp added. “Thankfully we live in a country where we have the freedom to believe what we want.”MLB responded by issuing warnings that any writing on the caps “violates our rules” and threatened future violations. One player, Sam Hentges, simply refused to wear the Pride hat at all.Catherine Hanaway sworn in as Missouri’s 45th attorney generalNow, Missouri Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway is drawing a hard line.In a letter to MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr., AG Hanaway made it crystal clear: Missouri will not tolerate MLB punishing players for exercising sincerely held religious beliefs.“It has come to my attention that MLB is considering disciplining members of the San Francisco Giants who expressed their dissent from wearing ‘Pride Night’ hats—by either writing Bible verses on those hats or wearing the regular Giants cap. In response to these actions, MLB said, ‘The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,’” Hanaway wrote.“Missouri will not tolerate any threat to punish a player for exercising his sincerely held religious or moral beliefs. Doing so is both illegal and un-American,” she added.Hanaway cites binding Supreme Court precedent (EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., 2015) and Missouri law (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 213.055(1)(a)) making it illegal for employers to force employees to violate their religious convictions.She continues:“Forcing employees to espouse viewpoints that conflict with deeply held religious beliefs violates both federal and state law.”“MLB’s actions are also just plain wrong. As America’s pastime, baseball should not discriminate against the political, moral, or religious beliefs of any player.”Quoting Obergefell v. Hodges, Hanaway reminds Manfred that the law protects not only those who celebrate same-sex marriage but also those who “deem same-sex marriage to be wrong” based on “religious or philosophical premises.”In a direct statement on X, Attorney General Hanaway added:“By forcing players to promote political and religious beliefs that they disagree with on pain of discipline, @MLB is betraying a core tenet of American law and civic culture. I will open an investigation if MLB fails to respond to my letter by June 25.”By forcing players to promote political and religious beliefs that they disagree with on pain of discipline, @MLB is betraying a core tenet of American law and civic culture.I will open an investigation if MLB fails to respond to my letter by June 25. pic.twitter.com/AZqO7UhUWn— Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway (@AGCHanaway) June 17, 2026The letter gives MLB until June 25, 2026 to confirm, in writing, that it will not discipline any players who chose to refrain from wearing Pride Month paraphernalia or who added Bible verses to the Pride hats.If MLB refuses or fails to respond, Hanaway vowed to open a formal investigation into whether the league is violating the religious liberty rights of players and employees in Missouri.This comes as U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has already opened his own Congressional investigation into MLB’s targeting of the Christian ballplayers.Read more:UPDATE: Senator Josh Hawley Opens Investigation into MLB for Discrimination Against Christian Players for Proclaiming Their Faith on Pride Night – Calls Out League’s Hypocrisy/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i