Dodgers nix award to anti-Catholic transgender nuns after backlash
Jeremiah Poff
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A California-based drag show group that uses Catholic and Christian imagery in sexualized contexts will no longer be honored by the Los Angeles Dodgers on the team’s planned Pride Night, the team announced Wednesday.
The announcement comes after the MLB team faced criticism from Catholic organizations and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who accused the team of normalizing and perpetuating anti-Catholic bigotry by presenting its Community Hero Award to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of self-professed “queer and trans nuns.” The award presentation was planned for the team’s Pride Night on June 16.
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In a statement released Wednesday, the Dodgers said the team would no longer honor the group after learning that it had become a source of controversy.
“This year, as part of a full night of programming, we invited a number of groups to join us. We are now aware that our inclusion of one group in particular — the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — in this year’s Pride Night has been the source of some controversy,” the team said in a statement. “Given the strong feelings of people who have been offended by the sisters’ inclusion in our evening, and in an effort not to distract from the great benefits that we have seen over the years of Pride Night, we are deciding to remove them from this year’s group of honorees.”
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Concerns about the team honoring the group were first raised by Rubio, who, in a letter to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, said the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have “mocked and degraded Christians, and especially Catholics, since its founding on Easter Sunday in 1979.”
“For once, common sense prevailed in California,” Rubio tweeted Wednesday after the Dodgers announced the group would no longer be honored.
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The Dodgers’ announcement was welcomed by Brian Burch, the president of CatholicVote, a Catholic political advocacy group. Burch had sent a letter to the team on Tuesday, urging them to cancel their plans to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
“We are pleased that the Dodgers reconsidered their decision to honor an anti-Catholic hate group known for their gross mockery of Catholic nuns,” Burch said. “While we continue to wonder how such a group was selected in the first place, this incident should serve as a wake-up call for all religious believers: unchecked woke corporations have no qualms about exploiting people of faith.”