Liberal Forum

Despite its mental illness, it sounds like it is helping its community.
I wonder why it picked the name "corndog".

Sister Shalita Corndog isn't your everyday nun — but she has the same dedication to love and community (msn.com)

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a unique group of nuns drawn into the spotlight for their sometimes controversial celebrations — but what many have yet to learn about is their community work and love for both critics and fans. They're an order of LGBTQ+ nuns founded in San Francisco in 1979 with a lengthy history of community service to the LGBTQ+ community, especially during the initial decades of the AIDs crisis .In June, they made headlines again when the Los Angeles Dodgers invited them to receive a community award, uninvited them after conservative backlash, and reinvited them after backlash from the LGBTQ+ community. While the Sisters received an award at a June 16 Dodgers game, protests led by various Catholic community groups took place outside the stadium. 
 She said part of their mission is to "promulgate universal joy" and "expiate stigmatic guilt," or the guilt rooted in the human condition in general. This part of the mission is more difficult since some people carry "painful wounds" from the rhetoric they've heard or experienced in faith communities, Corndog said.
 "You're taught that God loves you, that you're surrounded by guardian angels that protect you, that watch over you in the night, very beautiful comforting messages — but then they sneak in at the end of that, 'as long as you're heterosexual,'" she said. "What the sisters do is we make it okay to separate that hate-filled rhetoric from the core faith and belief that that person was connected to."She also said that while some actions of the Sisters are well-publicized, like their "Hunky Jesus" or "Foxy Mary" costume competitions, other activities, like the Sisters' work with the unhoused and those with substance abuse disorders, or their efforts to connect with lonely or suffering people in their communities, are often overlooked.