sisters, like nuns, of perpetual indulgence. it has outraged and upset christians across the country. some of the top players on the dodgers have been deeply uncomfortable with this honoring of this group. it led to the group being invited and then they were uninvited, and then reinvited as the dodgers shifted around to try to get on the right side of this with backlash on all sides. so here s why there s so much backlash. they call themselves a leading edge order of queer and trans nuns. they ve been around since the 1970s. they ve raised money for gay refugees and aids suffererers over the years. part of their act is routinely mocking jesus christ, the virgin mary and women that choose to devote their lives to serving as sisters and nuns. here s just one example of what they do. every year this is called the hunkey jesus contest. a warning. this might not be everyone s cup of tea. here s a bit. oh, hey. i m oh, sweet jesus! martha: okay. so i m sure it s not a big sur
michigan, watch, this. our soldiers fought, bled and died in the jungles and beaches so you and i can live with peace, prosperity and freedom. they fought under the american flag and no other. this is a historic moment. a moment where the basic rights of lgbt folks are under attack. martha: i love the background. with me, tudor dickson that ran for governor of michigan last year and kat timpf who has a family connection to hamtramick. did i say that right? yeah. martha: i have thoughts on this. what do you think when you watch this situation? yeah, i suppose it was not surprising to me. my great grandmother came from hamtramick and my mother came from hamtramick. i spent a lot of time growing up in a child as hamtramick playing baseball in the alley, all that kind of stuff, right?
trans or, you know, they re suggesting that its saying bad things about people that aren t willing to just have the american flag on a civic building. we re talking about city property that is a civic building, not your house or anywhere else in hamtramick. it s an interesting debate right now. you don t see a lot of leftist or media organizations talking about it because they re confused. what do you do? this is a mostly democrat city. these are mostly democrat voters but a highly conservative muslim community. that community says we don t want this on our public buildings. this is not necessarily a debate whether or not can it be in the local starbucks but on your public buildings. everybody is like what do we say about this? do we get mad about this or accept this? martha: it s almost like there s a litmus test that comes around every year or every other year. like a couple years ago, it was if you don t put the black lives matter flag on the city council, on the municipal build
we have seen these debates before in hamtramick. i remember when i was younger, they started there was a debate over call to prayer happening in hamtramick over the noise ordinances. they voted for an exception to the noise ordinance. because there s a large muslim population. yeah. used to be polish. now everybody is muslim. hamtramick has been having these debates before. i m surprised that something like this took this long to happen given what i ve seen happening in the city. martha: one of the reasons is that this pride months, not just the rainbow flag, which everybody is very familiar with and a symbol that people have gotten used to and many people are happy to see and now it s this progressive rainbow flag and if you don t hang it up, you re against people who are
here, i m going to try it relax the way they do. i m joined by some young dudes in hamtramick for the millennium perspecti perspective. why huka? huka is something we ve done thousands of years. against our religion to drink any alcoholic beverages so this is considered our bar. oh, wow. o they so they ll come like . i blow it or breathe? don t inhale. like he s already laughing. we ll do it all together. ready? yeah. congratulations. you don t hold it in. you can just let it like a baby huka. tastes delicious. it s like a smoked smoothie. were you all born and raised here? no. i was actually born in yemen. okay. then, you know, he was born in yemen. we were all born in yemen but you get to hamtrami kprrck, you actually know what it is to be american because you see the appreciation the residents have. just being able to just live a