Clayton Kershaw did not agree with the Dodgers' decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and sought a return of the team's Christian day.
and other LGBTQ+ groups soon announced they would not participate in the Dodgers' Pride Night, the 10th such celebration for the team. On May 22, the Dodgers changed course, offered an apology to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and extended an invitation to participate in the team's Pride Night.
Kershaw, a three-time Cy Young Award winner and likely first-ballot Hall of Famer, has been open about his faith during his major-league career ― including authoring a book titled"I don’t agree with making fun of other people’s religions," Kershaw told the LA Times."It has nothing to do with anything other than that. I just don’t think that, no matter what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else’s religion. So that’s something that I definitely don’t agree with.
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