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Welcome back to our aVIP video series “Off the Beaten Path,” featuring my friend Larry O’Connor! The Townhall columnist and Salem News Channel host starts off our week by discussing stories and ideas that may fly under our radar, in culture, politics, sports, and more. Plus, Larry previews tonight’s SNC show!

Highlights:

• “There [has been] so much pressure from Major League Baseball [on] teams like the Indians to change their names because it might be offensive, and they acquiesce,” Larry points out. “It’s always certain segments that are being offended that have a voice, but if you or I are offended, where’s our voice?”
• “Braves, Indians, Chiefs, Seminoles — those aren’t derogatory terms, I reply. “And yet there’s this volume of condemnation on these teams and the leagues, all sorts of pressure for them to abandon their team names.” And “while we’re exercising all this sensitivity towards other groups,” I continue, “you know, screw the Catholics.”
• On the group itself: “They have a twerking Jesus, they have somebody dressed like Jesus who performs sexual dance performance in public,” Larry says. “It honestly, it makes me uncomfortable to even say it, but you have to describe what this is, so people understand what the problem is.”
• It’s worse than that, as others have pointed out, but here’s the Twerking Jesus event Larry discussed:

.@Dodgers understand who they are re-inviting, but so everyone does: This anti-Catholic hate group hosts a "hunky Jesus" contest at Easter. Contestants give sexual performances as Jesus in drag. Past winners include "twerking Jesus." Sorry to post, but rank bigotry deserves… pic.twitter.com/gkQ7wFtyvn

— Megan Basham (@megbasham) May 23, 2023

Chalices filled with yogurt to look like semen? Pole dancing on a crucifix? “Condom savior mass?” Gay bars to ridicule the Stations of the Cross?@Dodgers @mlb really? You support this?

— CatholicVote (@CatholicVote) May 23, 2023

• And here’s more from our Townhall colleague Mia Cathell:

Among the abhorrent actions of the worldwide “Order,” whose motto is “Go forth and sin some more!”—a perversion of Jesus’s command from John 8:11, “Go and sin no more,” co-founders “Sister Vicious Power Hungry B*tch” and “Sister Missionary Position” wore the habits of a Roman Catholic convent to a gay nude beach, and in 2007, they tricked the archbishop of San Francisco into giving them the Eucharist during Holy Communion. This past Easter Sunday, they hosted a “Jesus and Mary-themed striptease” where a pole dancer was “writhing upside down on a large wooden cross.” Half-naked men were also there competing to be crowned the “hunkiest” Jesus along with contestants vying to win the group’s longtime “Foxy Mary” contest.

•  As I say, the Dodgers have chosen a side, and it’s the side of hatred and bigotry. “So they chose,” I tell Larry. “Look, I don’t live in Los Angeles, I don’t go to the games, I root for the Dodgers sort of passively, or at least they did up until this week, but if they’re choosing, I’m choosing.” And that is after 60 years of bleeding Dodger Blue.
• “And this is the thing that really ticks me off,” Larry says. “And this is the thing that really ticks me off. Honestly, I bet you if you asked every single member of this performance art group [ad] their fan base, I bet they couldn’t even name one player on the Dodgers, past or present. They don’t care.”
• “All they care about,” I reply, “is progressive nihilism.” And that’s what the Los Angeles Dodgers are now endorsing.

Be sure to watch it all, and join us in the comments!