The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence confirmed they'd been in talks with the Los Angeles team and accepted their invitation to rejoin Pride Night.
“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 team said in a statement.
. They hosted some of the first fundraisers for AIDS victims in the nation, and since the group’s founding, have continued to raise funds for their communities while organizing vibrant community drag events.to the Dodgers’ statement reinviting them by sharing their own, explaining that a “full apology and explanation was given to us by the Dodgers staff which we accept.
and criticizing the Dodgers’ decision, claiming the Sisters’ use of Catholic imagery and paraphernalia for their drag costumes is “anti-Catholic.”“Shamefully, the @dodgers have been bullied into apologizing to & “re-inviting” a group of anti-catholic bigots,” Rubioin a Monday tweet, dripping with shameless irony. “Today our great country is controlled by socio-political ruling elites who don’t just tolerate anti-Christian bigotry, they encourage & celebrate it.
I almost have to laugh at Rubio and conservative Catholic groups having the gall to call queer people anti-Catholic since they’ve been forced to face generations of anti-LGBTQ oppression and attacks from the Church and its followers—you know, like what we’re seeing now.
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