Letter to Senator Kelly Seyarto

Dear Senator Seyarto,

I strongly urge you and your State Senate colleagues to vociferously condemn and refuse to participate in the California Senate’s plan to “honor” the bigoted anti-Catholic minstrel performers known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. These so-called performers harken back to the dark days of the Jim Crow Era minstrel shows that routinely demeaned and caricatured Black Americans, all in the name of performance art. If anything, a strong case could be made that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a de facto hate group, and should be reported to Governor Gavin Newsom’s recently launched website for reporting hate crimes in California.

In this day and age, it is almost inconceivable that a similar group of bigots would openly mock and ridicule other religions of faith like Judaism, Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism, among others. Such demeaning mockery of these religions would undoubtedly receive widespread public condemnation and disapproval.

Yet even now, billion dollar enterprises like the L.A. Dodgers cower to a small and vocal mob

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Would you immediately drop your net and fishing poles and walk down the shore with Jesus?

Zachary Elliott Special to the Valley News

If Jesus walked into your work today, looked at you behind your desk, and said, “Follow me,” what would you do?

Would you stand up, leave your desk behind and follow Jesus? Wave at the other people in the