Thousands Protest at Dodger Stadium as Team Honors Anti-Catholic Drag Group
Thousands of protestors gathered at the gates of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 16 amid a backlash from religious groups after the baseball team invited an anti-Catholic drag queen group to be honored at the venue for its annual LGBT “Pride Night.”
The protest, which was co-sponsored by nonprofits Catholic Vote and Catholics for Catholics, lasted for four hours until Friday evening, during the height of which organizers said up to 10,000 protestors showed up outside the gates. Many demonstrators wore red and carried signs or symbols of their faith, decrying the antics of the drag group as mocking of their religion and the work of real nuns….