The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the group invited, disinvited and then invited again to the LA Dodgers' Pride Night, have been dedicated to community service and LGBTQ rights activism for decades.
. “This is simply a group that was making fun of a religion, that I don’t agree with.”“We’re trying to break down some of the things that people learned in church around groups of people disliking themselves or others,” she said. “So many people have scars from the faith they grew up with.”in the United States are religious, according to a 2020 report from the Williams Institute, a think tank at the UCLA School of Law.
“We don’t dislike any faith necessarily,” Letgo said. “But we do push back on people who hate us because of who we are.”Though the voices of faith-based nuns have been largely absent during the Dodgers controversy, there is at least one Catholic nun supporting the sisters.
Nine months after Letgo became a member of the Russian River Sisters, she visited her mother’s Catholic church wearing her headdress and lashes. The congregation was curious and accepting. Before she left, Letgo read them her vows.Russian River Sisters of Indulgence members holding hands at "Wonder Woman Bingo."
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