After the Los Angeles Dodgers moved forward with plans to honor LGBTQ+ group The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with CatholicVote launched an ad called “The Dodgers Have Lost Their Way” in protest of the decision. But one local news outlet is refusing to air the one-minute commercial.
According to a report from Fox News, Spectrum SportsNet LA – the sports network that carries Dodgers games in the LA market – has refused to air an ad criticizing the Dodgers for their decision to honor the LGBTQ group, claiming that the “subject matter” of the ad “too controversial.”
The criticism stems from the fact that the group parodies and satirizes Catholicism and Christianity, using symbols and imagery.
The commercial highlights the Dodgers organization’s very progressive decision to sign and play Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in Major League Baseball – which is rather ironic, considering it also promotes silencing an LGBTQ group.
“Playing Jackie wasn’t popular. Hate and disrespect were popular, even in law. But the Dodgers were right. They helped power a movement and changed the nation. Their leadership, class and style of play were the envy of baseball. ‘The Dodger Way,’” the ad says according to Fox News.
“But, today, the Dodgers are putting it all at risk,” the ad says. “On June 16, a prominent anti-Catholic hate group will be honored on the field, a group that mocks Catholic nuns with vile sexual perversions, pole dances on crosses, blessings with sex toys, even sexualizing the Virgin Mary and the words of Jesus Christ.
“A fringe group like this honored, awarded, celebrated? There is no equality in mocking religious women. No tolerance in hate, no pride in anti-Catholic bigotry. Mocking Christians is not the Dodger way,” it concludes.
In response to the ban, the group has “pivoted quickly” and shared the ad on social media, generating millions of views.
[Fox News]
