CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – The pro-abortion activist leader of a Canadian Black Lives Matter (BLM) city chapter has been charged with an anti-Catholic hate crime after allegedly preventing people from accessing a Catholic school and impeding people’s right to practice their faith.
As reported by the Calgary Herald on Tuesday, Calgary BLM president Adora Nwofor, 47, was given a hate crime mischief charge on June 2 related to a May 26 incident.
Nwofor was found to have been “willfully obstructing and interfering” with people’s use of St. Thomas Aquinas School, which is used “primarily used for religious worship and educational purposes,” allegedly for personal “reasons of bias, prejudice, or hate based on race or ethnic origin.”
Nwofor appeared in court and was released on a no-cash bail. She is banned from being within 100 meters of the school and from speaking to staff or students.
It is not clear what Nwofor, a known pro-abortion extremist, was doing or saying, but it could be related to her disdain for people with pro-life views. She has attended numerous pro-abortion rallies in the Calgary area.
Last May, Nwofor led a rally in Calgary to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s looming overturning of Roe v. Wade, at which she claimed pro-life Canadians were looking to have something similar happen in Canada despite this being impossible considering the country has no abortion laws.
Calgary’s Black Lives Matter website defines itself as having begun “humbly as a collection of activists and advocates who share a single vision: the empowerment of all members of the Black community and to continue the fight to end systemic discrimination in all of its forms.”
The Los Angeles Dodgers have decided to honor the blasphemous anti-Catholic drag group, the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, with a Community Hero Award on June 16, the Feast of the Sacred Heart.
This blatant contempt for the Catholic faith cannot go unchallenged.
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The Major League Baseball franchise said it had decided to honor the group — which engages in deliberately offensive sexualized burlesque mockeries of Catholicism — after initially canceling plans to do so when the public expressed outrage.
“After much thoughtful feedback from our diverse communities, honest conversations within the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and generous discussions with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Los Angeles Dodgers would like to offer our sincerest apologies to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their friends and families,” the statement read.
In one move, you managed to turn off conservatives and slap Christians in the face with disgusting drag nuns. What a disgrace you’ve become. Was recently at a game. Won’t be coming back.
— Courrielche⚡️ (@courrielche) May 23, 2023
The baseball team said it will ask the sacrilegious group “to take their place on the field at our 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night on June 16th.”
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The Dodgers’ Monday announcement comes after it previously agreed to dis-invite the group after outrage by Catholics and other conservatives.
Among others, Catholic Vote and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida vocally objected to the decision to honor the so-called “sisters.”
“Given the strong feelings of people who have been offended by the sisters’ inclusion in our evening, and in an effort not to distract from the great benefits that we have seen over the years of Pride Night, we are deciding to remove them from this year’s group of honorees,” the team said in a since-deleted May 17 announcement.
San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone had previously thanked the Dodgers for their decision to roll back the invitation.
In its Monday statement, after apologizing for temporarily dis-inviting the anti-Catholic hate group, the Dodgers promised to “work with our LGBTQ+ partners to better educate ourselves, find ways to strengthen the ties that bind and use our platform to support all our fans who make diversity part of the Dodgers family.”
Make your voice heard NOW, before this blasphemy takes center stage.
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Conservatives responded on social media by slamming the baseball team for caving.
“Yes, it is vital that the national pastime honor and support those who mock religion and decency,” reacted Daily Wire co-founder and podcaster Ben Shapiro.
“The Gay Mafia will always extract their payment for ‘protection,’ said Crisis magazine editor-in-chief Eric Sammons.
Some social media users hinted that the team should face the same backlash as beer company Bud Light, which is continuing to endure a massive boycott after its decision to honor transgender-identifying TikTok activist Dylan Mulvaney.
But the Dodgers weren’t always woke and divorced from traditional religious practice.
Former Dodgers great Sandy Koufax, a left-handed pitcher who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in fame in 1972, famously refused to pitch during Game 1 of the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the most important holy day in the Jewish calendar. He previously opted out of games that landed on Passover and Rosh Hashanah.
And Koufax wasn’t alone in living an active faith. Legendary announcer Vin Scully, the “Voice of the Dodgers” for 67 years, was a staunch Catholic. Scully, who passed away last year at age 94, was described by Catholic News Agency’s Jonah McKeown as “a devout Catholic who found in his faith a source of joy and comfort and sought to share it with others through personal kindness and philanthropy.”
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, Scully was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary and even narrated a two-CD audio recording of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 2016.
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Catholic schools in Alberta are publicly funded and are older than the province itself. They are also constitutionally protected under law.
Although local Catholic bishops do not run the schools, they do have the power and responsibility to ensure that the school boards uphold the church’s unchangeable position on moral issues such as abortion and the main tenets of the faith.
Since the first century A.D., the Catholic Church has held an “unchangeable” teaching of doctrine on human life. For centuries, the church has recognized abortion as an intrinsic “moral evil,” complicity in which “constitutes a grave offense” that carries the “canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life.”
As for Canada’s abortion laws, there are none. The deadly, grisly practice is legal until birth.
Unlike in the United States, abortion in Canada exists in a legal vacuum since being decriminalized over 30 years ago. This means there is no “legal right” to abortion in Canada.
The 1988 Morgentaler decision saw the Supreme Court of Canada throw out the last remaining abortion law on the basis that it was unconstitutional. Since then, no federal law exists to regulate abortion, and thus the practice is permitted through all nine months of pregnancy.
According to the Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) website, abortion has killed over 4 million preborn babies in Canada since its legalization in 1969, which is roughly equivalent to the total population of the province of Alberta.