The use of drag-queen imagery depicting religious and historical figures during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris has sparked a controversial and heated response.
This isn’t the Olympics I remember growing up…
I’m boycotting this evil sht! You…? pic.twitter.com/R15fAMu1I1
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 27, 2024
During the usual parade of nations at the Olympic Games, the ceremony included performances that were deemed offensive by many.
Olympic Boycott pic.twitter.com/FiwZTKDCXV
— Matt Kim (@FreeMattKim) July 27, 2024
One notable performance featured a headless portrayal of Marie Antoinette, the final queen before her execution in the French Revolution. She was depicted wearing drag-style makeup and holding her severed head.
There are no words to describe how repugnant parts of the Opening Ceremony in Paris were.
Mocking the summary execution of Queen Marie Antoinette, however, crossed every line. Today, as in 1793, the Paris junta revels in violence and gratuitous cruelty.pic.twitter.com/DH1fF60wcs
— Western Exile (@westernexile) July 27, 2024
Additionally, a recent exhibition featured a troupe of entertainers, including drag queens and a plus-size woman wearing an aureole halo crown, satirizing “The Last Supper,” a famous painting by the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that depicts Christ and his disciples.
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An apparent child could be seen joining the drag queens during the performance.
Instead of bringing people together, the planners of the event… pic.twitter.com/5nUSmE72Oe
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 26, 2024
Criticism of the ceremony came from prominent political figures around the world, especially those in American politics, who denounced the portrayal as a symbol of the decline in Western Civilization.
it's a toxic blend of cultural Marxism, "body positivity", and blasphemy.
— Albert Latham (@albert1776) July 26, 2024
“Men in wigs front & center at the Olympic Games,” shared OutKick’s Riley Gaines on social media. “No one ever tell me this group is ‘oppressed’ or ‘marginalized’ again.”
Elon Musk, the innovative mind behind Tesla and the X platform, criticized the exhibit, describing it as “highly disrespectful to Christians.”
This was extremely disrespectful to Christians
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2024
NFL football player Harrison Butker, renowned for his outspokenness about his Catholic faith, quoted scripture to censure the spectacle, citing, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.’ Galatians 6:7-8.”
“Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.”
Galatians 6:7-8 pic.twitter.com/bhCHoO1HXk
— Harrison Butker (@buttkicker7) July 26, 2024
Equally appalled, ex-transgender influencer Oli London described the scene, asserting, “Olympics openly mocks Jesus’ Last Supper as drag queens dressed as women play the role of disciples while a plus-size woman appears in the middle symbolising Jesus wearing a giant crown.”
It took me about 2 scrolls through my TL to boycott the Olympics
Fuck the woke culture and anyone who tries to normalize this filth pic.twitter.com/mE6DEMPVO5
— Ken Climo (@Ken_Climo) July 27, 2024
What an absolute disgrace.
My family and I will make sure to TUNE OUT this year.
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