Looking at these “Pride Night” spectacles, it’s hard not to think of the old Dionysian cult festivals of the ancient world. The modern LGBT cult may not be offering wine to a Greek god, but the similarities between the movements are difficult to ignore.

Dionysus—literally the effeminate god of ancient queerdom—represented ecstasy, excess, the suspension of ordinary restraints, and the deliberate destruction of social boundaries. His festivals were celebrations of liberation from order itself, especially sexual order.

The modern Pride movement presents itself in exactly the same way—as a celebration of sexual transgression, a public declaration that traditional moral boundaries should be discarded and replaced with personal autonomy as the highest virtue.

If you’ve been watching the news, or you keep up with sports at all (I really don’t), you’re probably aware that the MLB has “issued warnings” to three San Francisco Giants pitchers after they wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.

The players—Landen Roupp, Ryan Walker, and JT Brubaker—were opposed to putting their names and personalities behind the spirit of the age sodomy-themed movement and either refused to participate completely or added references to Scripture, including Genesis 9, the passage describing God’s covenant with mankind and the rainbow as its sign.

According to MLB spokesman Pat Courtney, the players were warned because the writing “violated league uniform rules” and similar conduct in the future would not be tolerated.

The controversy erupted after the Giants organization also issued a statement acknowledging that some members of the LGBT community felt hurt by the players’ actions.

So, MLB, let me see if I’ve got this straight.

You can force a rainbow logo on players’ uniforms in celebration of a particular sexual ethic that would have been rejected by virtually every American generation for more than two centuries.

You can require players to participate in an event centered around beliefs that millions of Christians—and for that matter, even Muslims, Jews, and other religious groups—regard as morally wrong.

You can take a symbol that Christians have understood for thousands of years as a reminder of God’s covenant and repurpose it into the banner of contemporary sexual anarchy and anti-Christian sentiment.

That’s all fine.

But if a player still wears the hat, still takes the field, still does his job, and simply writes a Bible verse referencing the original meaning of that symbol?

That’s where the line is? That’s the violation? That’s the conduct that requires an official warning from Major League Baseball?

A rainbow logo is acceptable. A Bible verse explaining the biblical significance of the rainbow is not. And we’re supposed to believe this is about uniform regulations.

Sure