The Los Angeles Dodgers are moving forward with a plan to honor LGBTQ group The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during their Pride Night celebration, and one Christian group is not happy about that decision.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is an LGBTQ group that parodies and satirizes Christianity and Catholicism using imagery and symbols. As a result, Christian group CatholicVote put together a one-minute advertisement criticize the Dodgers’ decision to honor the group.
The commercial, which a local affiliate is refusing to air because it is “too controversial” calls out the Dodgers for honoring a group that “mocks Catholic nuns.”
Ironically, the group accuses the anti-LGBTQ group of “bigotry” and bizarrely uses the Dodgers’ extremely progressive choice to sign and play Jackie Robinson – baseball’s first black player – as evidence of the Dodgers doing the right thing when it “wasn’t popular.”
“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, via 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.
The Dodgers have not changed their unpopular plans in response to the criticism – much like their decision to play Jackie Robinson.
[Fox News]
