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The 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris has sparked international outrage with drag-queen themed imagery of religious and historical figures.
In between listing all the countries participating in the Olympic Games, there have been several performances riffing on France’s history and culture, such as a headless Marie Antoinette, the last queen prior to being executed amid French Revolution, singing with her severed head in her hands sporting drag-style makeup. This was part of numerous drag queens that appeared to be a recurring theme throughout the ceremonies. Three drag queens were among the 10,000 torchbearers who relayed the Olympic flame as it started in Greece, passed through French territories and made its way to Paris.
One new display on Friday showed what appear to be numerous performers, including drag queens and a large woman in an aureole halo crown, parodying “The Last Supper,” a universally recognizable painting by renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci of Christ and his apostles.
Many internationally known political figures, particularly from American politics, condemned the display as a sign of the cultural rot in Western Civilization.
Blasphemy https://t.co/SBTSLAHJh8
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 26, 2024
Men in wigs front & center at the Olympic Games
No one ever tell me this group is "oppressed" or "marginalized" again https://t.co/xcGBSP46q7
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) July 26, 2024
Tesla founder Elon Musk who bought the X platform criticized the display, saying, “This was extremely disrespectful to Christians.”
“The Olympics has basically turned into one long drag show,” anti-woke cultural commentator Libs of TikTok wrote. “The Olympics has gone completely woke.”
The transnational Left have contempt for Western civilization. https://t.co/FsHmNs3I2H
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) July 26, 2024
This is crazy. Opening your event by replacing Jesus and the disciples at the The Last Supper with men in drag. There are 2.4 billion Christians on earth and apparently the Olympics wanted to declare loudly to all of them, right out of the gate
NOT WELCOME pic.twitter.com/T88AmXbqXL— Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) July 26, 2024
Some of this might explain why so many people left Europe to settle in the United States. https://t.co/Pwng3Iu6iH
— Bob Lonsberry (@BobLonsberry) July 26, 2024