The LA Dodgers decided to recognize the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for Pride, and then they didn't, and then they belatedly did. The decision to support the Sisters is the right one, even if it's getting stupid flack, and here's why, from me, the erstwhile Catholic-adjacent agnostic.
The ministry of the Sisters has gone among the people and held them up and comforted them and tried to teach them to be considerate and do no harm to one another, It has used satire of organized religion, but that's because those memes are accessible and subject to very real conversations about the actual harms that bigotry in religion causes, and that the failure to be real and upfront about sexuality in education perpetuates.
Marco Rubio can pretend that the Sisters are anti-Catholic because of their criticism of a faith that hasn't delivered for the downtrodden--he can pretend LGBT sexuality is a choice and a sin for whatever deflection from his lived reality floats his boat, but in the real world, you either serve one another or you will be marked by the master you actually serve. And Marco serves himself. For all I can tell. And the people who wanted to protest the Pride celebration the LA team held are so dumb.
We can tell you what the Sisters have done for their fellow humans. They have done work. If you want to throw back their criticism of Catholicism my word! What is there not to criticize about the Catholic Church. What team is spreading calumny about people who have done no harm ,versus those who have used their offices to do great harm?
It is not anti-Christian to debate what is moral and right. It should be the essence of faith--to want to strive to be right, not to dogmatically assume one just is.
And I will venture to say, by one's fruits you can know whether one is doing right. I got that quote from somewhere. Real ones would know.
AFTERTHOUGHT: The same people who feel discriminated against in this instance more than likely feel it is just for "pro-life" protesters to scream in the faces of young ladies getting medical care at Planned Parenthood, to deny birth control to a mother of four who just can't do this again, to fire a lesbian teacher for marrying her life partner while Father Whathisname just gets transferred to another district for something far more dire. Tell me who is oppressed?
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The Catholic Church needs to STFU about anything having to do with human sexuality for at least 100 years.
They want to depict themselves as the martyrs where they are only punching down at a reasonable opposition made up of a persecuted minority, Once again, Christians claim they are being thrown to the lions. Because (checks notes) something is not about them, even.
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