EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been updated following a retraction from the L.A. Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers planned to honor the LA chapter of the The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a drag queen group that mocks Catholics and sexualizes nuns, during a Pride Night game on June 16.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence describe themselves as the “leading-edge Order of queer and trans nuns.” The drag queens dress up as nuns and refer to themselves as “sisters,” and their group as an “order.”
“The Sisters frequently act as educators, lecturing to classrooms of students and informing the cute boy at the bar about the risks of unsafe sex,” their website reads. (RELATED: Bud Light To Woo Customers With Camouflage Bottles After Mulvaney Backlash: REPORT)
The group was set to receive a Community Hero award, “for their countless hours of community service, ministry, and outreach to those on the edges,” according to a press release from the Dodgers.
“Given the strong feelings of people who have been offended by the sister’s 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 LA Dodgers wrote on Twitter Wednesday.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 17, 2023
The Catholic advocacy group Catholic Vote blasted the MLB team for their decision to honor the drag queen group in a letter sent to the Dodgers Tuesday.
“The SPI mock Catholics by taking on vulgar names such as ‘Sister GladAss of the Joyous Reserectum,'” the letter, penned by Catholic Vote president Brian Burch says. “They dress in sexualized perversions of religious garb, taunting the women religious who serve the poor in Southern California and throughout the world. In one infamous stunt, they tricked an archbishop into giving them the Eucharist – the most important sacrament of the Catholic faith – so they could defile it.”
The letter also notes that Catholic Churches have recently become a target of pro-abortion vitriol, with 47 churches in California alone being attacked, according to a tracker put out by the organization.
“Make no mistake: the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a hate group. If the Dodgers are truly committed to fighting bigotry and promoting inclusivity, as you have often claimed, you must cancel this award.”
The group has since celebrated the team’s decision to remove the group from the list of honorees, writing that, “While we continue to wonder how such a group was selected in the first place, this incident should serve as a wake-up call for all religious believers.”
Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who also sent a letter to the team on Monday, celebrated the news on Twitter.
“For once, common sense prevailed in California,” he wrote.