By Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal
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| Sen. Tim Scott |
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who is running for
president, condemned the LosAngeles Dodgers’ decision to celebrate the Sisters
of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag performers who mock Christianity, and
Roman Catholicism in particular, by dressing up as sexualized nuns and even
sexualizing Jesus himself.
“We should
all be incredibly disappointed in the Los Angeles Dodgers,” Scott told The Daily Signal in a phone interview
Thursday, one day before the Dodgers’ Pride Night on Friday evening. “It was
shameful and disgusting.”
The Dodgers announced May
4 that the team would bestow a “Community Hero Award” on the Los Angeles
chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for “their countless hours of
community service, ministry, and outreach to those on the edges, in addition to
promoting human rights and respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment.”
This sparked
an avalanche of criticism, because the “Sisters” repeatedly have engaged in
acts that most Christians—and especially Catholics—would consider blasphemous.
Bill
Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights,
compiled a list of the group’s most outrageous acts of anti-Catholic bigotry,
including a 1987 “Condom Savior Mass” in San Francisco where the group burned
the pope in effigy, multiple Good Friday shows featuring a sexualized Jesus
pole-dancing on a cross, and its advocacy for abortion.
The Dodgers announced May
17 that the team would disinvite the group following backlash from Sen. Marco
Rubio, R-Fla., among others. Yet on May 23, the team flip-flopped again,
offering “our sincerest apologies” to the “Sisters” and reinviting them to the
June 16 event.
“In the
weeks ahead, we will continue to work with our LGBTQ+ partners to better
educate ourselves, find ways to strengthen the ties that bind, and use our
platform to support all of our fans who make up the diversity of the Dodgers
family,” the team announced in a written statement.
Dodgers
pitcher Clayton Kershaw condemned
the team’s move in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, and said the team
would host a “Faith and Family Day” on July 30.
“I don’t
agree with making fun of other people’s religions,” Kershaw said. “It has
nothing to do with anything other than that. I just don’t think that, no matter
what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else’s religion. So
that’s something that I definitely don’t agree with.”
Scott, an
evangelical Christian, praised Kershaw’s statement in his call with The Daily
Signal.
“I stand
with Clayton Kershaw,” the South Carolina senator said. “The act of denigrating
faith as a way of celebrating independence, to me, is disgusting.”
“No one
should be promoted and encouraged to denigrate someone else’s faith,” Scott
added.
He noted
that Americans wouldn’t mock Islam in the same way.
“I can’t
imagine someone in this country doing that to the Muslim faith—it just wouldn’t
fly here,” Scott said. “But to the Christian faith, it seems like people
see us as a minority to be made fun of, or to be denigrated. I just reject it
outright.”
“There’s
never a place in America where being disgusting toward our Judeo-Christian
principles should be OK,” the senator added.
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