{"id":1937842,"date":"2023-05-25T10:33:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-told-la-dodgers-students-could-die-if-drag-queen-nuns-werent-re-invited-to-pride-night\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T10:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:33:46","slug":"teachers-union-told-la-dodgers-students-could-die-if-drag-queen-nuns-werent-re-invited-to-pride-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-told-la-dodgers-students-could-die-if-drag-queen-nuns-werent-re-invited-to-pride-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Union Told LA Dodgers Students Could Die If Drag Queen Nuns Weren&#8217;t Re-Invited to Pride Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fteachers-union-told-la-dodgers-students-could-die-if-drag-queen-nuns-werent-re-invited-to-pride-night%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1937842&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p>A powerful California teachers union was part of a successful pressure campaign to get the Los Angeles Dodgers to re-invite a group of anti-Catholic drag queen nuns to the team&#8217;s annual Pride Night. The union suggested that LGBT students&#8217; lives were at stake.\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a time when LGBTQ+ rights are under attack across the country with more than 400 pieces of legislation filed in states, at a time when 45 percent of LGBTQ+ youth report seriously considering committing suicide each year, we should be leading with love and inclusion in California rather than sowing division,&#8221; the California Teachers Association president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cta.org\/press-release\/educators-call-on-la-dodgers-to-reinvite-group-to-annual-pride-night\">said<\/a> in a statement on Monday, referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/06\/politics\/anti-lgbtq-plus-state-bill-rights-dg\/index.html\">a spate<\/a> of &#8220;red state&#8221; legislation restricting sex-change treatment for minors and a 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lgbtq-youth-suicide-the-trevor-project-mental-health-2022\/\">Trevor Project survey<\/a>. &#8220;Our students are watching what happens on and off the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The union had resolved to speak out after the Dodgers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/37681060\/dodgers-disinvite-lgbtqia+-group-pride-night\">rescinded<\/a> an offer to honor the drag group, known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, for its advocacy before a June 16 home game against the San Francisco Giants. The <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5137.jpg\">resolution<\/a>, which was obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon, <\/em>went even further than the union&#8217;s public statement, likening the controversy over the baseball game ceremony to the AIDS epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SILENCE = DEATH has long been a refrain of the LGBTQIA+ community, and though it refers to refusal to acknowledge the AIDS crisis, silence in the face of the national assault upon these marginalized youths will lead to more deaths,&#8221; the resolution read.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1981 and 1990, more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/00001880.htm\">100,000 people<\/a> died of AIDS in the U.S., the overwhelming majority of whom were gay men. There is no evidence that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence or sex-changes treatments for minors save lives.<\/p>\n<p>The California Teachers Association&#8217;s over-the-top advocacy for the Sisters highlighted the union&#8217;s powerful role in California&#8217;s progressive politics. It has <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/2020\/10\/california-lawmakers-big-donors-special-interest-independent-expenditures\/\">consistently<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cal-access.sos.ca.gov\/Lobbying\/Employers\/Detail.aspx?id=1146811&#038;session=2023&#038;view=activity\">ranked<\/a> among the top spending lobbyists in the state legislature and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/california\/the-powerful-lgbt-group-behind-californias-most-radical-laws-is-setting-its-sights-on-washington\/\">has supported<\/a> California&#8217;s growing embrace of transgenderism in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the union weighed in, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapride\/status\/1659355674500038656\">LA Pride<\/a> and others, the Dodgers caved and agreed to recognize the Sisters as originally planned. The team on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dodgers\/status\/1660787780769726477\">offered<\/a> its &#8220;sincerest apologies&#8221; to the drag group and its allies and pledged to &#8220;continue to work with our LGBTQ+ partners to better educate ourselves.&#8221; The Sisters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladragnuns.org\/press\">confirmed<\/a> it had accepted the Dodgers&#8217; renewed invitation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sister Roma&#8221; thanked the California Teachers Association in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SisterRoma\/status\/1661012679602077701\">tweet<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THIS. IS. HUGE. Thank you &#8230; also for affirming your commitment to our queer and trans youth. Understanding and acceptance starts with education and education starts with Teachers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among those who had objected to the Sisters&#8217; invitation were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/dodgers-reward-anti-catholic-hate-speech\/\">Bill Donahue<\/a>, the president of the Catholic League, and senator Marco Rubio (R., Fl.), who last week sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2023\/5\/rubio-to-mlb-dodgers-aren-t-inclusive-and-welcoming-to-christians\">public letter<\/a> to Major League Baseball\u00a0 Commissioner Rob Manfred questioning whether the league is &#8220;inclusive and welcoming&#8221; of Christians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you believe that the Los Angeles Dodgers are being \u2018inclusive and welcoming to everyone\u2019 by giving an award to a group of gay and transgender drag performers that intentionally mocks and degrades Christians\u2014and not only Christians, but nuns, who devote their lives to serving others?&#8221; Rubio asked.\t<\/p>\n<p>From its inception in 1979 in San Francisco\u2019s Castro District, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesisters.org\/\">satirized<\/a> Catholic beliefs in the name of progressive activism. When Pope John Paul II visited San Francisco in 1987, the group held an &#8220;exorcism&#8221; and a &#8220;Condom Savior Mass&#8221; featuring the &#8220;Latex Host&#8221; in Union Square, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SISTERS-OF-PERPETUAL-INDULGENCE.pdf\">according to<\/a> the Catholic League. Other events included a mock Mass with tequila, a Good Friday fetish fashion show, and a &#8220;Midnight Confessional Contest&#8221; at a bar with prizes for the &#8220;hottest confessions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sisters are best known for their &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IYWnHn4qfFI\">Hunky Jesus<\/a>&#8221; contest every Easter Sunday in San Francisco, featuring sexual parodies of the crucifixion.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful California teachers union was part of a successful pressure campaign to get the Los Angeles Dodgers to re-invite a group of anti-Catholic drag queen nuns to the team&#8217;s annual Pride Night. 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