A nun commends Dodgers' handling of Pride Night controversy -
Indeed, three high-ranking U.S. Catholic leaders this week suggested the team had committed blasphemy.
The Dodgers’ reversal was welcomed by LGBTQ+ allies, including some Catholic nuns. But it infuriated many conservative Catholics, even at the highest levels of the U.S. hierarchy. “A professional baseball team has shockingly chosen to honor a group whose lewdness and vulgarity in mocking our Lord, His Mother, and consecrated women cannot be overstated,” the archbishops said. “This is not just offensive and painful to Christians everywhere; it is blasphemy.”
“While I am uncomfortable with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence using the nuns’ old garb to draw attention to bigotry, whether Catholic or not, there is a hierarchy of values in this situation,” Gramick wrote. “I have spent about 30 years passionately trying to help people understand and respect the lives of gay, lesbian and trans people,” she added. “Women religious are their best allies in the Catholic Church - we don’t deserve for our lives to be caricatured in this kind of demeaning way.”
Criticism wasn’t confined to Catholic ranks. The Rev. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, told listeners of his syndicated radio show that the Dodgers “completely capitulated.” “All ‘Pride’ events are attempts to celebrate what God has condemned,” Jeffress wrote. “Christians are right to boycott companies and organizations like MLB teams that try to cram their godless and offensive agendas down the throats of Americans.”
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