By BARBARA SIMPSON
I suspect if you are a regular reader of my comments and news coverage over the years, you know that I am a native New Yorker — having grown up through college years on the East Coast.
I was not a big sports fan, but like most New Yorkers, I had a favorite baseball team — everyone had to have one allegiance!
It was the New York Yankees or the Brooklyn Dodgers. For me and for my family, the Yankees won that one. Not that I went to that many games, but in conversations with friends and family, everyone had to have a favorite. And the Yanks were mine.
Over the years, despite the success or failures of the teams in competition, I didn’t change my view and honestly, to this day, I’m still in the Yankee camp.
The Dodgers were Brooklyn — despite their move to the West Coast years later — even when I too had moved to California. I never changed my view that the Dodgers were gauche and what has transpired these last couple of weeks, have simply reinforced that view.
Trying ever so hard to be “IN” and “WOKE” the team has signed on in a big way to the ongoing celebration of “Gay Pride.”
They do it to the extent that they continue their celebration of it at one of their games — the annual Gay Pride Night on June 16th.
This year, they have announced that they plan to honor an outfit of gay, drag performers calling themselves “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”
The group, ridiculing Catholic nuns, first got attention in San Francisco in the Castro District which became heavily gay. Media coverage grew in 1979 after writer Herb Caen wrote about them and first printed their name.
It is an incorporated organization, and has branches in many states and in foreign countries as well. It is not a small group — but the bottom line is dressing in religious, nun costumes, and insulting the Catholic faith.
When it was announced that they were planning to have the group honored this June, the negative feedback was enormous. Not only from the Church, but average citizens were incensed. It was so great that the team rescinded the invitation.
But gutless as they are, they caved and reissued the invitation, offering their “sincerest apologies” to the group! In fact, the plan is to present “the Dodgers Community Hero Award for service to the LGBTQIA2S Community.”
The team has had a Gay Pride Night for years, with no official reaction from area Catholics — but this time it’s different. The archbishop of Los Angeles, José Gomez, has called on “all Catholics and people of goodwill” to stand against the bigotry and hate promulgated by the group. In fact, there are growing plans for a march on the stadium.
Inasmuch as there are some one million Catholics in Los Angeles, and a good proportion of them are Hispanic — it would not be surprising for there to be a strong, negative reaction of the move by the team.
What is happening is that there also seems to be a growing reaction from individual team members against the move and this may have an effect on the final decision to keep the invitation open.
What would they do if players refuse to participate in the game that day? What is clear is that there is no way under the sun that the Dodgers would do this same thing if the target of the ridicule were Muslims or Jews. The team is “brave” only to a point.
I guess they figured they had an easy target and judging by the first reaction, they are right. But it seems times may have changed because of the massive GAY push in current society.
There is a movement growing for people to boycott the game and other games as well.
The team seems to think they can correct things by having a July “Christian Night.” What fools they think we are, and I hope this gets the negative attention it deserves.
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision to host a July 30 Christian Faith and Family Day does not allay concerns and outrage over the team’s plans to honor a self-described “order of drag, queer and LGBTQ+ nuns,” Catholic experts told OSV News.
“This is not a quid pro quo,” said Kathleen Domingo, executive director of the California Catholic Conference. “You can’t have a night where you invite one group that is openly bigoted towards another, then invite that other group. Why do you have to encourage inclusivity at our expense?”
The broad negative reaction suffered by Target and Anheuser- Busch after their attempt to cater to the Gays should be a lesson for the Dodgers. They will not escape the negative feedback, and if it hits them on the bottom line — MONEY — it will be a lesson they will regret.
“Dem bums” never learn.
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