According to multiple reports, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred allowed team owners to decide how to celebrate 'Pride Night,' but also discouraged teams from wearing LGBT-themed attire.
If the Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball really want to honor an organization for its work with AIDS patients, the Missionaries of Charity have done more than any group on earth.
'I believe it is essential that we speak up with clarity and charity when the truth that Jesus died to share is blasphemed or ignored,' Bishop Strickland told LifeSiteNews.
'The Catholic Daughters of the Americas strongly condemns the actions of the Los Angeles Dodgers and urges all Americans to boycott Dodgers’ games and merchandise,' the resolution states. 'We further demand that the Dodgers, who plan to showcase that group’s performative bigotry toward Catholics, especially Catholic women religious, cease this plan for June 16 and issue an apology to all Catholics.'
The team's lack of responsiveness 'seems to me to be a signal that they are obstinate in their decision to go forward to celebrate an anti-Catholic hate group.'
'I just don’t think that, no matter what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else’s religion,' 16-year veteran pitcher Clayton Kershaw told the Los Angeles Times.