Nationals’ Trevor Williams Refuses to Let Others Mock God
By Movieguide® Contributor
Washington Nationals starter Trevor Williams tweeted about the Los Angeles Dodgers re-inviting an anti-Catholic group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, to the stadium for the team’s annual Pride Night.
Williams wrote, “To invite and honor a group that makes a blatant and deeply offensive mockery of my religion, and the religion of over 4 million people in Los Angeles county alone, undermines the values of respect and inclusivity that should be upheld by any organization.”
Williams then sat down with EWTN’s Colm Flynn and stated, “We cannot stand idly by while our Lord gets mocked.”
“Before I hit send [on the tweet], you try to do as much research as you can,” Williams added. “You see the horrific videos that were posted of them. You read about what they’re trying to do. There’s things that are deeply offensive to us. And then you see that, well, they’re doing these things, they’re raising money for this that and the other. They’ve been doing it for over 30 years. But there’s a point where the Dodgers reinvited them after knowing very well what they’ve been doing for the last 30 years.”
William’s research went as far as reading the Dodgers’ code of conduct.
Williams stated, “At that point, I looked at the Dodgers’ code of conduct and it said, ‘You cannot wear anything or say anything that goes against anybody’s age, gender, creed, religion.’ At that point, this is going against their code of conduct. It’s a blatant anti-Catholic message that they’re sending, regardless of how much good they’ve been doing in their community. When I saw how deeply offensive it was — doing awful things to the cross — it became a point where these negatives should not be honored, and they shouldn’t be mocking a certain group.”
Williams concluded, “When you look at it from the outside and a totally objective view, it’s blatant mockery.”
Williams hasn’t been the only one upset with the Dodger’s organization.
Movieguide® recently reported on Clayton Kershaw’s take on the situation:
Kershaw’s response, “For us, we felt like the best thing to do in response was, instead of maybe making a statement condemning or anything like that, would be just to instead try to show what we do support, as opposed to maybe what we don’t. And that was Jesus. So, to make Christian Faith Day our response is what we felt like was the best decision.”
Kershaw added, “As a follower of Christ, we’re supposed to love everybody well,” Kershaw said. “And I think that means being able to be at a lot of different places and be able to be a part of a lot of different things.”
“It’s our opportunity to be able to kind of share our testimony of what we believe in and why we believe in it, and how that affects our performance on the field. It’s a great opportunity to see the platform that Jesus has given us and how to use that for his glory and not ours,” he concluded.
