What a mess.
Blinded by wokeness and desire to pander to typical Californians (if not typical baseball fans, which is, after all, their market) the Los Angeles Dodgers invited the group ‘The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’ to the team’s Pride Night this year, coming up fast on June 16. The group mocks religious objections to certain sexual practices and orientations by satirizing religious imagery and employing cross-dressing. They have been fairly described as flamboyantly anti-Catholic drag queen nuns. Recognizing that this may not have been the wisest move (a low level LGBTQ staffer seems to have sneaked the group on to the list of invitees), the Dodgers retracted the invitation. You know what that meant: there were screams of bigotry and protest from left-wing activists, including a teachers’ union that warned that refusing to honor the drag queen nuns “will lead to more deaths.” That’s the ticket these days: anything short of full endorsement of fringe sexual groups makes one complicit in theoretical hate crimes. Being weenies, Dodger officials went into full grovel mode. They offered their “sincerest apologies to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and their friends and family.”
Now religious fans and Catholic groups are upset. This is a binary situation: the Dodgers can be targeted by the anti-religions, LGBTQ+ zealots as bigots, confident that local news media will support them, or it can honor a group that is openly hostile to people of faith. Good job, Dodgers!
If only there had been some warning that this kind of thing could happen, like if, say, a beer brand decided to link its product to satirical celebrity who is colloquially known as a “chick with a dick,” or if a national retailer prominently advertised female bathing suits that facilitated male gonad “tucking.” Alas, the Dodgers were apparently unaware of any such developments.
Unfortunately for the team, not all baseball players are weenies. Last week, Trevor Williams, a pitcher for the Washington Nationals, issued this statement on Twitter:
Meanwhile, Dodger ace Clayton Kershaw tries to help his team out of its self-engineered jam by prodding his team to relaunch its day honoring the Christian faith, as it has in years past. The Dodgers quickly did so. “I think we were always going to do Christian Faith Day this year, but I think the timing of our announcement was sped up,” Kershaw said. “Picking a date and doing those different things was part of it as well. Yes, it was in response to the highlighting of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”
Uh-uh. Not good enough.
Catholic-advocacy group CatholicVote called Kershaw’s comments a “band-aid.” “The Dodgers’ announcement today is the equivalent of putting a Band-Aid on a gaping wound and in no way diminishes the harm and hurt caused by their plan to honor a vile anti-Catholic organization,” the group said. This week, another Dodger pitcher spoke up, condemning his team’s actions. Relief ace Blake Treinen wrote in a statement,
“I am disappointed to see the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being honored as heroes at Dodger Stadium. Many of their performances are blasphemous, and their work only displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith. This group openly mocks Jesus Christ, the cornerstone of my faith, and I want to make it clear that I do not agree with nor support the decision of the Dodgers to ‘honor’ the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”
The motto for the San Francisco-based group is “Go forth and sin some more,” an inversion of Christ’s command to “go, and sin no more.”More flak and distension is certain as the 16th approaches. One satisfied fan is certain to be Sam Brinton, the eminent Biden Administration diversity appointment now facing multiple charges for stealing women’s luggage and clothes. You remember Sam, right? He’s on the left…
Sam’s a member of the Sisters, and could use some honors about now. Meanwhile, team leader Mookie Betts, who led a team boycott of games after the completely justified shooting police shooting of Jacob Blake as he attempted to kidnap the children of a woman he had raped, brandishing a knife while police ordered him to stop, hasn’t weighed in. Mookie knew nothing of the details of the shooting, but refused to play a scheduled game anyway in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter rioters who savaged Kenosha.
The Dodgers brought all of this on themselves by not steering clear of politics, but the team had already breached that divide when MLB groveled to BLM. Now it’s trapped.
Good.
Ethics Alarms 
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence… Funny LOL.. now if they only had the balls to do Islam and it’s prophet with their names and addresses and places of work publicly and PRIDEfully on display.
There isn’t any need to go after Islam. They aren’t scared of an islamic backlash.
No, the target is Christianity. Because it’s the values of Christianity that the West inherited that propelled Western civilization to heights unimaginable by our primitive and pagan ancestors. These values have been the target since the marxist revolution.
I’m just going to add here that the Jesuits are defending the Sisters. This keeps going we are going to end up with a reinvigorated inquisition. Not looking forward to it.
ref: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2023/05/24/sisters-perpetual-indulgence-dodgers-245358
There are people upset that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence manned the gates of the Folsom Street Fair where they admitted children to an event where people were openly having sex and sold bondage gear for children. It is depressing that a supposed holy order would support that.
“ MLB groveled to MLB.”
BLM?
(Otherwise, it would have been such a great line.)
-Jut
Fixed. Until this minute, I never realized that MLB was BLM in reverse.
I’ve been following this story, and it actually gives me hope.
Not because of baseball. Here, Jack, you’re once again supported for the idea that baseball gives more ethics lessons than any other major sport. I can’t disagree with that, though my sports fondnesses are elsewhere.
No. The part that gives me hope is simply this: if you buy the fundamental idea of the Overton Window – and I think there’s a lot of truth to that idea – progressives have apparently mistaken the Overton Window for Renewals by Andersen.
In other words, they’ve jumped the shark. They look silly, and they look desperate, and much of the nation is looking at that window and saying…. “N_E_E_E_E_Y_O_O_O_O-P-E.”
Of course much of the nation will be branded as racist homophobes as a result. Too bad. Bud Light, Target, the LA Dodgers… Progs put all their chips on the table and drew a busted flush.
All we gotta do now is elect someone other than a senile leftie sock puppet or a sociopath who knows how to play to conservatives… and then MAYBE we can survive.
I have, one more than one occasion, been accused of being unreasonably optimistic. As may be. I’ve lived on this planet many years, and have never been sorely tempted to slit my wrists..
Not directly on point, but Anthony Bass learned the hard way that he must not cross Big Alphabet:
https://www.si.com/mlb/bluejays/news/blue-jays-anthony-bass-apologizes-for-anti-lgbtq-social-media-post
jvb
I’m going to post on this. He’s a weenie.
“Weenie”? He loves Big Alphabet.
jvb
Winston Smith was a weenie too.
So idiotic that the Dodgers are shoving this in the collective face of the Mexican American fans who comprise such a significant part (the dominant part) of their fan base, particularly the ones who go to the trouble of actually buying tickets and attending their games. This is sheer idiocy. This development, a gay underling making this decision, like the Bud Light and other situations, is going to bring back the purging of gay employees in organizations that are simply unable to police themselves anymore because they’re simply to large and ungainly.