Do the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence cross a line?
Even in 2023, LGBTQ+ Pleasure celebrations handle to offend segments of the inhabitants. That truth can’t be denied after the Dodgers included the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence within the workforce’s upcoming Pleasure Evening, then disinvited them after a marketing campaign by a handful of conservative Catholic teams — solely to reinvite the Sisters when the workforce’s try and placate detractors sparked a a lot bigger backlash. Maybe the Dodgers may use a journalist’s eye for distinguishing between a real grassroots rebellion and an internet-generated outrage marketing campaign.
This isn’t to say loads of Catholics weren’t sincerely troubled by the Sisters’ inclusion. In letters, some wrote that satirizing sacred figures of their church crossed a line — though notably, one precise nun wrote a letter praising the Sisters.
From the Dodgers’ standpoint, the matter is settled: There might be a Pleasure Evening, and the Sisters might be included. Amongst our readers, the dialogue continues.
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To the editor: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s fundraising and charity work to struggle HIV and AIDS are commendable.
For the reason that Dodgers are going to honor the Sisters, the workforce ought to enable the honorees on the pre-game ceremony to decorate in no matter they need, so long as they don’t mock any faith with their outfits.
Significantly, they need to not mock Jesus Christ, his Mom Mary or any of the nuns who’ve devoted their lives within the service of Christ.
The following day, all of us ought to proceed to cheer for our Dodgers and thank God for the variety that’s represented in our fantastic metropolis.
Ken Downing, Los Angeles
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To the editor: As a lifelong working towards Catholic who’s very lively in my parish, I wish to congratulate the Dodgers on their honest apology to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the reissuance of their invitation to attend Pleasure Evening at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers group has at all times been a typical bearer for tolerance and inclusion, and it’s gratifying to see it resist hate.
I might additionally wish to thank Invoice Donohue, president of the Catholic League; Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.); and Father Ronald M. Vierling and his massive social media group of bigots. Their vitriol has given the Sisters extra optimistic public consideration than they’ve gotten in a very long time, to not point out the donations which have poured in for his or her worthwhile charitable work.
George Newberry, San Pedro
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To the editor: How can it’s proper to defend one group of individuals by mocking and ridiculing one other? If love is love, then hatred is hatred. Interval.
Christa Chavez, Rossmoor
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To the editor: I’ve a query for Burch, the president of the conservative advocacy group CatholicVote that opposed the Sisters’ inclusion within the Dodgers’ Pleasure Evening.
How does he sq. his disgust within the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a charitable group of protest road performers, together with his embrace of a church of worldwide perpetual baby intercourse abuse?
Dennis Hammermeister, Granada Hills
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To the editor: A faith-based uproar over the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s scheduled look on the Dodgers’ Pleasure Evening?
Totally diabolical! Time for a constitutional modification to determine the separation of church and ballpark.
Greg Gilbert, Burney, Calif.
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To the editor: The Dodgers group would by no means rejoice in any method a bunch that mocked the LGBTQ+ group. However they clearly kowtowed to those who would achieve this to Catholics.
That is one fan that’s executed with the Dodgers’ woke insult to faith and is astonished that Catholic gamers would take the sector on the identical — a bottomless lack of ethical braveness on the very least.
That is from the workforce, thoughts you, that introduced up Jackie Robinson and regularly celebrates Sandy Koufax lacking a World Collection begin to honor Yom Kippur.
Kip Dellinger, Santa Monica
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To the editor: I’m glad that the Dodgers have redeemed themselves for the misguided shunning of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The workforce’s apology and renewed invitation to the Sisters have been apparent strikes to proper a fallacious.
A few years in the past after I was serving because the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League in San Francisco, stories reached us of the brutal torture and homicide of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming. The ADL and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence joined a candlelight march down Market Avenue to protest the homicide and honor this harmless younger man’s life.
There have been roughly 800 marchers, led on my own and the Sisters — principally younger males in drag — and we have been protected by the San Francisco Police Division, which closed Market Avenue to automobile site visitors to accommodate the march.
It was my privilege to collaborate with these compassionate younger males — no matter they selected to put on and no matter they selected to name themselves. This group deserves to be honored as a mannequin of group service, morality, compassion and nonviolent activism.
Barbara H. Bergen, Los Angeles
