The Los Angeles Dodgers have decided not to give a “Community Hero Award” to an anti-Catholic drag group after outrage and pushback from Catholics.

The Dodgers had originally planned to present the award to the Los Angeles chapter of the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” an organization of men who dress in drag queen versions of Catholic religious habits that claims to have a “ministry,” according to its website.

In a statement Wednesday, the Dodgers said they have pulled the group from the list of award recipients for the team’s “Pride Night” celebration before their June 16 home game.

“This year, as part of a full night of programming, we invited a number of groups to join us. We are now aware that our inclusion of one group in particular – The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – in this year’s Pride Night has been the source of some controversy,” the team said.

“Given the strong feelings of people who have been offended by the sisters’ inclusion in our evening, and in an effort not to distract from the great benefits that we have seen over the years of Pride Night, we are deciding to remove them from this year’s group of honorees,” the Dodgers said.

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— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 17, 2023

The Dodgers are partnering with LA Pride to put on the team’s 10th annual Pride Night.

Members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence go by names like Sister T’aint A Virgin, Sister Risqué of the Sissytine Chapel, and Sister Edith Myflesh. The group also mocks the process of becoming a Catholic nun by having members become a postulant, then a novice, and finally a fully professed “sister” with a black veil. One of the group’s founders originally used old habits used by real Catholic nuns.

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“Go forth and sin some more!” is the group’s slogan.

“We are more than just another community service organization: we are Sisters. As with our more traditional counterparts, nearly all of us felt a genuine calling to do this work. There is room for a lot of fun in the Order, but we take our callings and our vows very seriously,” the group’s website says.

Back in 2007, members of the drag group tricked the archbishop of San Francisco into giving them the Eucharist so they could defile it.

On Easter this year, the group put on a “Jesus and Mary-themed striptease” that involved a performer “writhing upside down on a large wooden cross,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported. They also had shirtless men compete to be crowned the “hunkiest” Jesus.

“These are just a few examples of the SPI’s vile and diabolical actions which go far beyond parody or satire – they are blasphemous and deeply offensive to Christians everywhere,” CatholicVote, a Catholic nonprofit, wrote in a letter to the Dodgers protesting the drag group’s award.

Catholic League President Bill Donohue called it an “outrageous insult to Catholics” and wrote to Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Rob Manfred about the situation.

In a statement Wednesday, Donahue said he wants to “thank Commissioner Manfred, and the Dodgers, for doing the right thing.”

“Justice was done in the end. There is no room for anti-Catholic bigotry in any gay or trans celebratory event,” Donahue said.

Leftist allies of Chicago’s new Mayor Brandon Johnson have proposed a budget plan that would tax the rich and businesses, and would effectively defund police in a city already nearly crippled by crime.

The budget plan was proposed by ACRE, the Action Center on Race and the Economy, in conjunction with the People’s Unity Platform and is titled “$12 Billion for a Just Chicago.” The first page begins with step one of the plan: “First we get the money.”

The plan also calls for eliminating all current vacant positions at the Chicago Police Department AND cutting the CPD budget by 9%.

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) May 17, 2023

One of the plan’s authors, Saqib Bhatti, was a member of Johnson’s transition team.

Big congratulations to ACRE's @snbhatti & @FREEwrites_ for being named to two transition subcommittees for mayor-elect Brandon Johnson & working toward a stronger, more equitable, safer Chicago. https://t.co/oZPZr0tUFI

— ACRE (@ACREcampaigns) May 1, 2023

ACRE touted the budget plan in a tweet claiming it would “reimagine everything in the city from policing to climate justice, housing & more.”

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— ACRE (@ACREcampaigns) May 17, 2023

The budget plan calls for $12 billion in new taxes — which would reportedly come in part from reducing the Chicago Police Department budget ($1.94 billion in 2023) by 9%, or approximately $175 million. The city would also eliminate all current police department vacancies – which, in August of 2022, amounted to over 900 patrol officer vacancies and over 100 detective vacancies.

Corporations — or any business with at least 50 employees — would face a “head tax” of $33 per employee, which the report estimated would bring in $106 million in new revenue. Anyone making more than $100,000 would face an additional 3.5% income tax – totaling approximately $1.2 billion. The city’s top 10% of earners would also get hit with a .4% wealth tax – amounting to $960 million annually.

A real estate transfer tax on transactions of over $1 million — which the report states would generate $1.63 million in revenue — would be used to fund housing projects that the report claims would “eliminate homelessness.”

The plan also demanded that Chicago refuse to use any federal money to fund law enforcement or Wall Street interests, arguing that investing that money in public housing would contribute more to community safety.

The conclusion, according to ACRE, was that the city’s budget had to be approached from a morality standpoint – and that previous budgets had not done so to their satisfaction.

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“A city budget is a moral document. A moral budget should reflect residents’ priorities and needs. The challenges Black and Brown communities in Chicago are facing today are a direct reflection of the immoral budgets that mayors and alderpeople have imposed on residents for decades,” the report stated, claiming that Chicago’s policing system had always been “racist” and had not contributed to safer communities.