At least two organizations, LA Pride and the Los Angeles LGBT Center, plan to pull out of the professional baseball team’s annual Pride Night celebration scheduled for a home game on June 16 to protest the Dodgers disinviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from the event in which the group of “queer and trans nuns” was set to receive a Community Hero Award.

“As a longstanding partner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, we are very disappointed in their decision to rescind their invitation to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to be honored at the 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night,” LA Pride said in a statement. “As a result and in solidarity with our community, LA Pride will not be participating in this year’s Dodgers Pride Night event.”

[Maybe the Dodgers should take this opportunity to cancel the whole event. If giving a night to honor local gay and lesbian groups is contingent on paying homage to groups that demean the faith and values of millions of MLB fans, it’s not worth it. And that’s a calculation that any person with common sense could have made BEFORE issuing the invitation in the first place. Welcome to the Bud Light of baseball teams. — Ed]

UPDATE:

A great case study in bad PR from the Dodgers.

First they invite a rabidly anti-Catholic group to play a major role in their pride night.

Then they uninvite them and apologize.

THEN after Twitter bullying they RE-INVITE them, make their logo a rainbow, and apologize. pic.twitter.com/JH0chJ7hD8

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) May 23, 2023

[So disappointing. The Dodgers damned well know NOW that SPI are a group of anti-Catholic bigots, and that’s the side they chose. Now we can choose accordingly, too. After 60 years of bleeding Dodger Blue, I’m done with them. — Ed]