A major league baseball team’s decision to honor an LGBT activist group that mocks Catholics shows the organization prioritizes LGBT groups more than religious ones, the president of a Catholic advocacy group said.
The Dodgers announced earlier this month they will give their “Community Hero Award” to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an activist group of “queer and trans nuns,” before their June 16 match to celebrate LGBT pride month. Last week, the team uninvited the group following criticism from Catholics, including CatholicVote and Sen. Marco Rubio. However, this week the Dodgers released a statement apologizing to the Sisters and reinvited them to receive the award.
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“This is an anti-Catholic hate group of homosexual men that dress up as Catholic nuns and engage in blasphemous and sacrilegious activities such as blessing themselves with sex toys, pole dancing on a cross, and inverting the words of Christ saying ‘go and sin some more,’” Brian Burch, the president of CatholicVote, a conservative political advocacy group, told Fox News.
The group also says on their website: “Go forth and sin some more!”
“The Dodgers are sending the message that Catholics don’t matter to them, that they are more interested in satisfying the extreme elements of the LGBT movement and that Catholics can go pound sand,” Burch told Fox News.
A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence seen marching at a New York protest. (Erik McGregor)
The CatholicVote president said it was “very shocking” that the team chose to award a group whose advocacy goals are not in line with those of their fan base.
But, despite criticism, the Dodgers are sticking with their original game plan.
“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 wrote in a statement.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s website prompts readers to “Go forth and sin some more!” (Gregory Herpe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
“In order to advance some kind of corporate agenda that they apparently have, that they’re willing to celebrate and honor an organization whose very purpose is mockery and hate against the Catholic Church,” Burch said.
LGBT pride month is typically celebrated in June and is dedicated to the celebration and commemoration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
To watch the full interview with the CatholicVote president, click here.
Ramiro Vargas contributed to the accompanying video