We Got a Crowd That's In a Frenzy Bob
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Chapter L.A.
I like to think of [the habit] as a bonfire or a lighthouse, so that light can shine out into places where there are no resources and there isn’t a strong community—Sister Unity
They’re the tricksters of the movement — they make us laugh, and laughing is powerful—Catholic activist Rosa Manriquez, who lives near Dodger Stadium. "I doubt there's any nun worth her ruler and her rosary who’s upset about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Clueless Marco Rubio is outraged that LA Dodgers honored drag nuns!
The News said that...
The Dodgers shouldn’t side with a homophobic
A senator who is a pressuring conservative Catholic
Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s hissy fit
Said the Sisters an anti-Catholic group of activist
Called them out for their fabulous drag as nuns attire
Added they pervert Christian teachings with their satire
Complained to Major League Baseball bosses from his dugout
Outside of California, where Rubio should butt out
The Sisters had no inkling it would court controversy
Midwestern activists and Florida elected officials show no mercy
LA Dodgers dump Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
They caved to the pressure from the senator’s divulgence
The team was slammed for bowing to pressure
We got a crowd that's in a frenzy Bob
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a charity group
founded in San Francisco in 1979, now in the loop
with affiliates across the U.S.A.
Including the chapter in L.A.
That started in the mid-1990s
Members dress in drag as nuns
Make us laugh bring us to our knees
Wear elaborate makeup, activists and are anti-guns!
Batter-up!
After the LA Dodgers uninvited an LGBTQ+ group to its Pride Night,
the Mayor of Anaheim, California invited the group to join
her for the Pride Night held by the team’s local rival, the LA Angels
LGBTQ+ advocates Grand Slam!
By canceling an appearance
by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
A non-profit LGBTQ+ group of performers
And activists who dress as campy nuns
The Sisters are getting
an award after decades of charity work
Marco doesn’t understand why
A Curveball For The Sisters!
They’ve grown into an international network of “orders”
Initially scheduled to receive Los Doyers’
Community Hero Award at the team’s
annual Pride Night on June sixteen
Devoted “to community service, ministry
Promoting human rights, respect for diversity
Outreach to those on the edges, and spiritual enlightenment”
According to their mission statement
A Wild Pitch!
“California's kaleidoscope of queer expression,
neon-bearded prankster nuns can seem like
Drag Queen Story Hour on acid
a Catholic-school fever dream”
Ron DeSantis whispered into ChatGPT
The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia
The LA Dodgers posted on social media
that they were disinviting the sisters
to the team's annual Pride Night
After they received some "controversy"
over including them
The group was supposed to receive
an award recognizing their activism.
Rubio said, who mock the faith with the motto ‘Go forth and sin some more!’
A Sister Bats!
We are both silly and serious
We use our flamboyance in service to our
charity work and our message
"'There is room in our world for each person
to be who they are, as they are, free from shame or guilt,
alive in joy and love for their own self,'"
"While we may no longer appear on Dodgers Pride Night
We will be out on the streets of Los Angeles continuing
to serve and uplift our community"
They added, "If being true to oneself with love, joy, and pride is a sin, then we, having been canceled by the New York Post, and now the Dodgers, will do what we always do. We will out and sin some more."
Home Run!
The Dodgers are taking back their ban on the drag group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and have invited them again to be part of LGBTQ+ Pride Night.
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