Mocking Catholic Nuns Is Just Fine with the Dodgers

Like Anheuser Busch, the makers of Bud Light, the Los Angeles Dodgers have grabbed the tar baby of transgender politics and now are doubtless rueing their decision.

First they invited a group of drag "performers" who call themselves the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to participate in their "Pride Night" but rescinded the invitation when outrage ensued. Then they reextended the invitation when LGBTQ+ groups threatened to withdraw from "Pride Night".

Their apology and reinvitation were about as obsequious and grovelling as one might imagine. An article at Fox News explains:

The Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday decided to invite the Sisters of Indulgence back to their Pride Night event next month after initially removing the left wing group of so-called "trans nuns" from their honoree list.

"After much thoughtful feedback from our diverse communities, honest conversations within the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and generous discussions with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Los Angeles Dodgers would like to offer our sincerest apologies to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their friends and families," the organization said.

"We have asked the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to take their place on the field at our 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night on June 16th. We are pleased to share that they have agreed to receive the gratitude of our collective communities for the lifesaving work that they have done tirelessly for decades.

The Sisters said they will indeed be honored with the Community Hero Award they originally were to receive.

"In the weeks ahead, we will continue to work with our LGBTQ+ partners to better educate ourselves, find ways to strengthen the ties that bind and use our platform to support all of our fans who make up the diversity of the Dodgers family."

Apparently, most of their life-saving work centers around gay sex and drugs. According to Wikipedia their charitable work involves the promotion of safe sex, raising money for HIV/AIDS and breast cancer research, the Gay Games, Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, and raising the "first legal $1000" for a city proposition to legalize medical marijuana. Worthy, perhaps, but hardly "heroic".

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

 

If the Dodgers truly want to honor nuns who have actually performed wonderful, heroic work among children, the poor, and the elderly they might consider inviting real nuns to their stadium. Why invite men who are actually mocking Catholic nuns and Christianity with not only the manner in which they comport themselves, but also by the name of their group and some of the names they go by themselves?

TownHall's Mia Cathell has more although it's behind a paywall. Here's a sample:

Among the abhorrent actions of the worldwide "Order," whose motto is "Go forth and sin some more!"—a perversion of Jesus's command from John 8:11, "Go and sin no more," co-founders "Sister Vicious Power Hungry B*tch" and "Sister Missionary Position" wore the habits of a Roman Catholic convent to a gay nude beach, and in 2007, they tricked the archbishop of San Francisco into giving them the Eucharist during Holy Communion.

This past Easter Sunday, they hosted a "Jesus and Mary-themed striptease" where a pole dancer was "writhing upside down on a large wooden cross." Half-naked men were also there competing to be crowned the "hunkiest" Jesus along with contestants vying to win the group's longtime "Foxy Mary" contest.

According to Hot Air the group also features a "twerking Jesus."

Perhaps the reader will think that I'm making too much of this, but ask yourself: Suppose a group of white men dressed up in blackface, called themselves something like Brothers of Perpetual Shiftlessness and paraded themselves around in the most racially stereotypical manner. Would anyone think this was anything but grossly insulting, racist behavior, even if the group performed charitable work in the black community? Would such a group be invited by the Dodgers to participate in a hypothetical minority pride night?

Why is mocking nuns - perhaps the most innocent, selfless people in our society - by a bunch of sexual obsessives and libertines any different, and why does a major league baseball team - in a league so afraid of offending a small group of Native Americans that they changed the name of one of their franchises - have no qualms about offending millions of Catholics and other Christians?