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The Department of Justice said it opened a religious discrimination probe into Major League Baseball after the league warned three players about potential discipline for writing Bible verses on their rainbow-stylized caps meant to honor LGBTQ Pride Night.<\/p>\n

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Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ\u2019s Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon said the agency will be looking into if the MLB violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex and national origin.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwing and a miss! Major League Baseball encouraged players to wear \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d on their uniforms but reportedly threatened Christians who write Bible verses on their hats,\u201d Ms. Dhillon posted Thursday on X. [The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] will investigate whether this amounts to religious discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

The federal government launched the investigation after San Francisco Giants players JT Brubaker, Landen Roupp and Ryan Walker had Bible verses written onto their Pride Night caps that saw athletes wearing a rainbow-colored \u201cSF\u201d logo on their hats. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The MLB said they warned the players for violating league rules about altering their uniforms, not specifically for adding Biblical messages to their gear. The verses the players added referenced Genesis 9:12-16, which mentions the rainbow as a symbol of God\u2019s covenant with all living creatures.<\/p>\n

The MLB said this has been a consistent standard league officials have upheld in the past, but Ms. Dhillon said the league has allowed players to don \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d patches in years past.<\/p>\n

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During the COVID-shortened 2020 season, the MLB and the player\u2019s union agreed to allow athletes to wear patches saying either \u201cBLM\u201d or \u201cUnited For Change\u201d for Opening Day.<\/p>\n

The exception granted for social justice messages came after George Floyd, a Black man, was killed by a White police officer in Minneapolis earlier that summer. Floyd\u2019s murder spurred nationwide protests against police brutality.<\/p>\n

Ms. Dhillon, in her letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, called the warnings issued to San Francisco Giants players a \u201cdouble standard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Civil Rights Act prohibits MLB and its franchise from unreasonably burdening the rights of players with religious objections to serving as the Leagues\u2019 vehicle for pro-Pride messages,\u201d Ms. Dhillon wrote. \u201cFederal law is clear: employers must modify their uniform requirements to reasonably accommodate their employees\u2019 exercise of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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