Blended indicators: MLB discourages Pride Night logos on uniforms as Dodgers honor drag queens

The Los Angeles Dodgers are ramping it up for Pride Night by honoring a troupe of drag queens dressed as “nuns” whilst Major League Baseball tries to dial it again.
 
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred stated that the league beforehand suggested golf equipment to not adorn gamers’ uniforms with seen LGBTQ-themed logos as groups have finished previously, citing objections from the athletes.
 
“We have told teams in terms of actual uniforms, hats, bases that we don’t think putting logos on them is a good idea just because of the desire to protect players and not putting them in a position of doing something that may make them uncomfortable because of their personal views,” Mr. Manfred advised reporters at his Thursday press briefing, as reported by Yahoo Sports.
 
The directive is already having an impression. The Tampa Bay Rays marked the crew’s seventeenth Annual Pride Night on June 10 with rainbow-colored signage, together with a message on the right-field wall saying “Baseball is for Everyone,” But the gamers didn’t put on particular uniforms or themed insignia.
 
Last 12 months, 5 Tampa Bay Rays pitchers made headlines once they refused to don the Pride Night jerseys and caps that includes rainbow patches, citing non secular objections.
 
“MLB informed teams during the offseason that they could only change their gameday uniforms for league-wide observances like Jackie Robinson Day, except for two teams (Dodgers and Giants) granted exemptions based on a pre-existing agreement, and Pride Night is considered a local event,” stated MLB.com.
 
All however one of many 30 MLB groups are holding Pride Night video games this month – the exception being the Texas Rangers – however the focus has been on the Dodgers for his or her determination to present the Los Angeles chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence the crew’s Community Hero Award at Friday night time’s sport.
 
A who’s-who of Catholic bishops, organizations and political leaders have denounced the transfer, condemning the self-described “order of queer and trans nuns” as an anti-Catholic hate group greatest recognized for its often-bawdy parodies of the church’s non secular beliefs and rituals.
 
Pro-Catholic teams equivalent to Catholics for Catholics plan to carry a “prayerful procession” and rally on Friday afternoon forward of the sport on the Dodgers’ stadium parking zone.
 
“Let’s be clear: The Los Angeles Dodgers is an organization that glorifies bigotry, making a mockery of their professed interest in tolerance and inclusion,” stated Bill Donohoe, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, in a Friday assertion.
 
Lawmakers blasting the crew embrace former Vice President Mike Pence; Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican; Sen. Tim Scott, South Carolina Republican, and former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii. 

Rubio advert slamming Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence rejected by station airing Dodgers sport

“The so-called Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are not community heroes. They are nothing more than an anti-Catholic hate group,” Rubio said. pic.twitter.com/YTs9OexbJ0

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Mr. Rubio, whose TV advert blasting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence was reportedly rejected by the native sports broadcasting community, and CatholicVote President Brian Burch accused the Dodgers of a non secular double-standard.
 
“Would anyone tolerate a group that portrayed the prophet Muhammad as a drag queen? Or a striptease at the Western Wall in Jerusalem? Of course not,” the 2 males stated in a Friday op-ed in The Federalist. “But now, when pro-abortion extremists are already unleashing a wave of violent attacks on Catholics around the country, the Dodgers have made it clear that anti-Catholicism is not only an acceptable form of bigotry, but laudable.”
 
Several gamers have publicly disagreed with the crew’s determination, together with Dodgers pitchers Clayton Kershaw and Blake Treinen, and Washington Nationals pitcher Trevor Williams.
 
“It’s a privilege to play this game and I’m thankful for everyone who’s given me an opportunity, but when I die, hopefully in a state of grace, and St. Peter greets me at the gates, he’s not going to ask what your win-loss record was in 2023, he’s going to ask, ‘How did you build the kingdom of heaven?’” the Nationals pitcher stated in a video interview with EWTN.

Meanwhile, a coalition of LGBTQ teams led by GLAAD stated that the fake Sisters “belong in the Dodgers’ stadium and are deserving of recognition.”

“The Sisters have served their community for decades, bringing ‘flamboyant hilarity to serious causes’ including supporting people with HIV, fighting for justice and equality, feeding the hungry, finding shelter for the unhoused, and raising more than a million dollars for charity, with grace, humor and uncommon compassion,” the teams stated in a Friday assertion.
 
Call to Action, a progressive Catholic group, blamed the pushback on “right-wing extremists.”

“Catholic organizations are wrong in pitting women religious against the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” stated Call to Action in a June 12 assertion. “Both groups have done necessary work in communities pushed to the margins.”