Bud Light partnered with a transgender influencer, then tried to walk back its support amid a backlash. The Dodgers’ Pride Night saga followed LGBTQ+-related difficulties for some other big-name businesses. “It sends a valuable message to children and teenagers that acceptance is important and contributes to good mental health.
“Pride Nights hosted by sports teams and Pride displays mounted by businesses acknowledge that accepting the diversity of sexual and gender orientations is normal in society,” he said. Alex Santora - who oversees an LGBTQ-welcoming parish in Hoboken, New Jersey - says Pride Nights are useful in combating prejudice. “These displays continue to confirm just how far removed from biological and sexual reality our culture is right now,” said Leatherwood, reiterating the SBC’s rejection of same-marriages and sexual relationships. Similar condemnation of Pride Nights came from Brent Leatherwood, head of the public policy wing of the Southern Baptist Convention - the country’s largest evangelical denomination. “Christians are right to boycott companies and organizations like MLB teams that try to cram their godless and offensive agendas down the throats of Americans.” “All ‘Pride’ events are attempts to celebrate what God has condemned,” Jeffress wrote. His church, First Baptist Dallas, is about 20 miles from the home field of the Texas Rangers, the only MLB team which isn’t hosting a Pride Night this season. “MLB teams have no business sponsoring highly divisive events like Pride Nights and instead need to concentrate on playing baseball,” said prominent megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress via email.
Some conservative religious leaders said they oppose the entire concept of Pride Nights. “This is simply a group that was making fun of a religion. “This has nothing to do with the LGBTQ community or Pride or anything like that,” said Kershaw. hierarchy.īut each pitcher said he had no objection to the broader tradition of Pride Nights. But it infuriated many conservative Catholics, even at the highest levels of the U.S. The Dodgers’ reversal was welcomed by LGBTQ+ allies, including some Catholic nuns. The Sisters’ performers - mostly men who dress flamboyantly as nuns - are active in protests and charitable programs.Ī week later, after a vehement backlash from LGBTQ+ groups and their allies, the Dodgers reversed course - re-inviting the Sisters’ Los Angeles chapter to be honored for its charity work and apologizing to the LGBTQ+ community. Under a barrage of criticism from some conservative Catholics, the team rescinded an invitation to a satirical LGBTQ+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to be honored at Pride Night. The Dodgers have been holding Pride Nights for 10 years, but this year’s edition on Friday night became entangled last month in a high-profile controversy. Catholic leaders this week suggested the team had committed blasphemy. Currently, it’s the Los Angeles Dodgers’ handling of their annual Pride Night - not the team’s record - that has provoked emotional reactions from religious people, including prominent faith leaders, Catholic nuns, and even the team’s All-Star ace. Devout baseball fans might view their teams’ performance as heavenly or hellish, depending on the quality of play.
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