Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass has become the latest victim of cancel culture by the Canadian legacy media for daring to publicly display his Christian faith and support boycotts against Bud Light and Target. The unwritten rule in sports is that athletes aren’t allowed to hold opinions on anything unless those opinions are directly in line with the latest progressive pet cause, whether it be kneeling for the anthem or wearing a pride flag jersey. It appears to be a whole other ballgame however when you involve scripture. That’s when the Canadian media get their claws out and go for blood.

This is not the first time that Canadian legacy media journalists and personalities have attacked Christian athletes for opposing wokeness in sports. In January, Philadelphia Flyers hockey player Ivan Provorov chose not to wear the team’s pride warm-up jersey, and for that, the full force of the Canadian media descended on Provorov and demanded apologies and punishment.

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    Harrison Faulkner is the host of Ratio'd and co-host of Fake News Friday. He is also a journalist and producer for True North based in Toronto. Twitter: @Harry__Faulkner