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Gustavo Arellano: Will conservative Catholics decry Florida's Sacramento migrant dump?

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey are introduced during the Joni Ernst's Roast and Ride event on June 3, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. The annual event helps to raise money for veteran charities and highlight Republican candidates and platforms.

In nine days, the Los Angeles Dodgers will host Pride Night and honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with a Community Hero Award. Conservative Catholic activists are marking off the days like a homophobic Advent calendar.

They're the ones who originally pressured the Blue Crew to rescind the honor from the Sisters, a charity group whose members dress in ornate habits to ridicule religious zealotry, yet who also do the good work that nuns do. The Dodgers reinvited the Sisters after a public outcry, causing the conservatives to call for a protest of Pride Night and a boycott of the Dodgers.

The boycott will be about as and founder of Word on Fire, a multimillion-dollar ministry that has made him .

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