By Angela Redding | Los Angeles, CA, | Hollywood Beat magazine | 6/17/2023
Images: Daily Mail UK
On Friday, June 16, the Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the San Francisco Giants in the first of a three-game series. The tension that had built up outside the stadium before the game was not lessened by the defeat. Despite resistance from Catholics regarding the drag queen group, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were honored by the Dodgers organization before to the game.
-HB | Hollywood Beat magazine
Thousands of protestors block entrance to Dodgers Stadium as team honors group of ‘Godless’ and ‘Christ-mocking’ queer and trans nuns in front of nearly empty stadium for Pride Night
By James Gordon For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:04 EDT, 16 June 2023 | Updated: 02:36 EDT, 17 June 2023
…The group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, was invited to appear before the Dodgers’ game against the San Francisco Giants, and receive an award for their community work.
The ceremony to award the Community Hero Award to the ‘nuns’ was held before an almost-empty stadium, ahead of the game – but outside, protesters gathered…
Robert Barron, a Catholic bishop in southern Minnesota and formerly an auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles, told his 240,000 followers on Twitter that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence ‘can only be described as an anti-Catholic hate group,’ and urged a boycott of the club.
‘But I’d encourage my friends in LA to boycott the Dodgers. Let’s not just pray, but make our voices heard in defense of our Catholic faith.’
Thousands of religious activists held a ‘prayerful procession’ outside Dodger Stadium, responding to a call for a ‘prayerful response to Dodgers’ godless decision to honor blasphemous, Christ-mocking ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.’
Protesters wore red, in honor of the sacred heart, and held signs as they gathered before the game.
The group later walked from the parking lot to the intersection outside the stadium’s main gate, spread out across the entrance to the ballpark under the watchful eyes of police.
MLB pitchers Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers and Trevor Williams of the Washington Nationals criticized the Dodgers for inviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, saying they resented the group’s mockery of Catholicism.
‘This has nothing to do with the LGBTQ community or Pride or anything like that,’ said Kershaw.
‘This is simply a group that was making fun of a religion. That I don’t agree with.’
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