Second Dodger pitcher balks at honoring anti-Catholic hate group HotAir

And that s just a taste of SPI s blasphemous treatment of Christianity and Catholicism. They also offer mockeries of the Eucharist, including yogurt-filled chalices (which they pretend is semen), and they actually stole communion wafers from a Mass under the pretense of taking communion on at least one occasion. These men mock women who enter the religious life and who give their lives in service to the poor and dying all over the world, and who have been doing so for centuries upon centuries. They sexualize and objectify them to mock and blaspheme their beliefs and their work.

Other than the theft, the SPI certainly has the free-speech right to do this. I d fight against any effort to ban these demonstrations, albeit not with much enthusiasm. They have as much right to do this as the neo-Nazis had to march peacefully in Skokie, Illinois, and that comparison is not random. They re both hate groups, but we don t restrict speech on the basis of hate even though the SPI s progressive allies have been trying to do so for the last couple of decades or more.

But that doesn t mean we should honor them for their hate, nor participate with any organization that does. To do so is to participate in their hate, to celebrate it, and to normalize and promote it. Ignoring it is not an act of love, as Kershaw argues, but a refusal to confront hatred. In fact, the anti-Christian animus seems to be the explicit purpose of this celebration. The lesbian and gay community in Los Angeles undoubtedly has many non-profit orgs helping out their own members and others in the Southland, so why choose to elevate the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for this Pride Night?

via hotair.com

Suppose you had an anti-Jewish hate group? You could have caricatures of money lenders cackling over piles of gold coins while carving up meat made to look like Christian babies. Or you could have an anti-Muslim hate group with Mohammed pretending to have sex with a 14-year old girl, and so on. These performances might be protected by the First Amendment, but they would unambiguously be hate and be all but universally condemned. Or you could have an anti-gay hate group, depicting gay men engaged in one depraved activity after another. The blindness of the Pride types to this point is inexcusable. The Dodgers have really put their foot in it this time.