The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is an LGBT activist group comprised of drag performers who wear religious habits. Critics have referred to the organization as an “anti-Catholic hate group,” accusing its members of making a mockery of the faith.
On Monday, CatholicVote released a six-figure ad campaign that includes footage of then-U.S. Sen. Harris posing with SPI member Michael Williams (“Sister Roma”) and LGBT activist James Mitchell (“Saint Honey Mahogany”) during a 2019 San Francisco pride event. Williams has been a member of SPI since 1987, according to the Catholic advocacy group.
In addition to showing Harris on stage during the LGBT event, the ad showed a montage of clips, including one of a highly sexual dance routine using a cross.
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Last year, one of the group’s former members, Clinton Monroe Ellis-Gilmore, was arrested for allegedly exposing himself in the driver’s seat of a parked car. Authorities said that multiple witnesses saw the 53-year-old man sitting in his truck with the door open and masturbating for an hour.
“Why is Kamala Harris posing with the founder of an anti-Catholic hate group? They mock our faith,” a voiceover in the ad asks. Another voice recording in the ad explains that “The sisters are men who dress in lewd imitation of Roman Catholic nuns that intentionally mock and degrade Christians.”
Describing what took place in one of their performances, Bishop Robert Barron of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota lamented that “A drag queen comes in and sort of pulls Jesus off the cross.” Barron suggested that “For Catholics, it’s hard to imagine anything more offensive.”
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CatholicVote called on Harris to condemn SPI and its “disgusting anti-Catholic behavior.” As CatholicVote President Brian Burch explained to CP, the drag troupe is “no ordinary LGBT activist group.”
Burch stressed that SPI regularly holds “Hunky Jesus” competitions, where adult drag performers dressed as Jesus or the Virgin Mary simulate sex acts or engage in striptease. He also recalled an incident where SPI members tricked a Catholic archbishop into providing the Holy Eucharist, only to desecrate it later in a mock Mass.
“This kind of hatred and bigotry cannot be tolerated, much less celebrated by anyone wishing to lead our nation,” Burch stated. “Kamala Harris must publicly condemn these sacrilegious actions and any group that exists to mock and defile what is most sacred to Catholics or any person of faith.”
Kamala Harris’ campaign did not immediately respond to The Christian Post’s request for comment.
Leaders of pro-life and faith-based groups have raised concerns about how a potential Harris administration would address their needs.
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In an X post following the interview, the pro-life advocacy group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America cited the vice president’s remark as evidence of her intention to “federally steamroll Americans into taking part in abortions against their will.”
CatholicVote also published an X post in response to the vice president’s comments, sharing a clip of the interview and asking why Christians would vote for Harris.
“Kamala Harris admits she would deny religious exemptions for abortions—forcing Christians to kill unborn children and seemingly doubling down on weaponizing the government to jail pro-lifers who pray outside abortion facilities,” the group stated.
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