"LA Dodgers decide not to honor group of ‘trans nuns’ that mocks Catholicism after backlash"

"The Los Angeles Dodgers have canceled their decision to grant a sacrilegious anti-Catholic hate group a 'Community Hero Award' due to outrage over the plans.

The Major League Baseball team had announced in a press release its plans to honor the 'Sisters of the Perpetual Indulgence' — a mock order of 'queer and trans nuns,' that is, men dressed in drag and 'habit' who routinely ridicule the Catholic faith — during the team’s 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night.

The men in drag revel in acting out in public often sexualized parodies of holy events sacred to Catholics, such as the birth of Christ and the Way of the Cross, and work, in their words, to 'expiate stigmatic guilt,' which involves other burlesques in protest of traditional Christian morals on gender and sexuality. They have also fundraised for HIV/AIDS research, the Gay Games, and a proposition to legalize medical marijuana.

After a flurry of outrage over the Dodgers’ plans to award the anti-Catholic group, including from Catholic Vote and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, team management decided to remove the Sisters of the Perpetual Indulgence from this year’s Community Hero Award honorees.

'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,' the team stated in a press release."

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— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 17, 2023