LA Dodgers condemned for re-inviting anti-Catholic LGBTQ group to Pride Night: 'Vulgar, grotesque'

The LA Dodgers decision to invite, disinvite and then re-invite the LGBT activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence shows they choose advocacy over the altar.

A major league baseball team's decision to honor an LGBT activist group that mocks Catholics shows the organization prioritizes LGBT groups more than religious ones, the president of a Catholic advocacy group said. 

The Dodgers announced earlier this month they will give their "Community Hero Award" to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an activist group of "queer and trans nuns," before their June 16 match to celebrate LGBT pride month. Last week, the team uninvited the group following criticism from Catholics, including CatholicVote and Sen. Marco Rubio. However, this week the Dodgers released a statement apologizing to the Sisters and reinvited them to receive the award.

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"This is an anti-Catholic hate group of homosexual men that dress up as Catholic nuns and engage in blasphemous and sacrilegious activities such as blessing themselves with sex toys, pole dancing on a cross, and inverting the words of Christ saying ‘go and sin some more,’" Brian Burch, the president of CatholicVote, a conservative political advocacy group, told Fox News. 

"This group engages in all sorts of sacrilegious and blasphemous activity. Their whole purpose, the identity of their organization, is to mock and to denigrate Catholics," Burch continued. "It's vulgar, grotesque, it's nothing that any major corporation, let alone a major league baseball team, should be celebrating or honoring."

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The group, formed on Easter Sunday in 1979, is known for members who attend