Baseball at the Abyss

On June 16, some 2,000 people gathered outside Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium to protest the team’s having chosen to honor, on the field before that night’s game, a group whose core mission and purpose is the open mockery and parody of Catholicism. Several players noted their objections to the team’s choice, among them pitching ace Clayton Kershaw, who in the aftermath of the team’s decision to celebrate the group successfully lobbied Dodger leadership to let him announce a “Christian Faith and Family Day” for later in the season. A Los Angeles Times article quoted Kershaw as criticizing the decision to honor the group in June: “I don’t agree with making fun of other people’s religions. … I just don’t think that, no matter what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else’s religion.”