UPDATED: LGBTQ+ Community, Postmodern Secularists Insult Billions For No Good Reason
It defies comprehension, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed its French Olympic counterpart – a subordinate counterpart – to use a portion of the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony to insult over 2.4 billion people. Why?
During the opening ceremonies, flamboyant even for the French, who often land on the extravagant side of gaudy, organizers apparently ridiculed Christianity by featuring more than a dozen drag queen entertainers posing for what was perceived by billions as a scene replicating Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper, showing Jesus and his disciples sharing their last Passover meal before his betrayal, trial, and crucifixion on the cross.
In the aftermath of global outrage and condemnation, the French Olympic Committee attempted to explain that the depiction, choreographed by Thomas Jolly, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, wasn’t inspired by DiVinci’s work but instead an interpretation of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and revelry. The committee acknowledged its error in how the scene would be perceived by even the learned in the general public and issued an apology, saying, “If people have taken any offense, we are, of course, really, really sorry.”
But noted art historian Sasha Grishin, professor emeritus at the Australian National University, said, “The idea of the central figure with a halo and a group of followers on either side — it’s so typical of ‘The Last Supper’ iconography that to read it in any other way might be a little foolhardy.”
As reported in The New York Times:
“The central figure wearing the headdress was reminiscent of High Renaissance-style Last Supper paintings, in which Jesus is depicted with a halo or light around his head, Professor Grishin said. In some paintings, this is portrayed as a gold circle. In others, like da Vinci’s, Jesus is backlit by a window or has a subtle radiance around him.
“The drag queens’ poses also resembled those of Jesus’ disciples, he said, adding that the scene was a “very, very sacred image” to Christians as it represented the moment that Jesus announced he was prepared to sacrifice himself for humanity’s sins.”
After all of the struggles the LGBTQ+ community has endured to acquire understanding and tolerance in the mainstream, it is stunning that members of that community didn’t recognize the affront this portrayal would cause, even if their intentions were innocent.
The slap in the face to almost a third of the world’s population by the woke French Olympic Committee’s DEI-enslaved “artistic directors” was almost instantaneously condemned – as it should have been. There is no legitimate reason, no acceptable logic or situation, for the IOC to have allowed any host country to degrade one of the world’s great religions.
Outrage At High Volume
Bishop Emmanuel Gobilliard of Digne, the Holy See's special representative for the 2024 Paris Olympics, said, “Why there? It is contrary to the Olympic Charter, to the dimension of unity that is present in its values, to the idea of bringing everyone together without political and religious demonstrations. Why exclude believers and Christians? It was the last place to do that. We were to respect the spirit of the Olympic Charter. We are out of it now.”
But representatives of the church weren’t the only people appalled by the brazen provocation. Elected officials in Europe were outraged as well. As Caroline de Sury wrote in OSVNews.com:
“Politicians were also disgusted by the scene, with Catholic French member of European Parliament Marion Maréchale going on X to say: ‘To all the Christians of the world who are watching’ the Paris ceremony and ‘felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation.’
“[The] United Kingdom’s Christian groups Voice for Justice UK and She Leads UK united to call for an immediate apology ‘outraged at Drag queen parody of the Last Supper,’ they said in a July 27 statement.
“‘This is not acceptable. Yet again, the word ‘inclusive’ is used to justify behavior that is overtly exclusive. Such mockery is a deliberate attack on the person of Jesus Christ and a direct challenge to the faith that underpins, and lies at the heart of, Western society,’ the joint statement said.”
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, said, “Opening the Olympics by insulting billions of Christians in the world was really a very bad start, dear French. Sleazy.”
US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), said, “Last night’s mockery of the Last Supper was shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world who watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. The war on our faith and traditional values knows no bounds today.”
And potentates like Elon Musk, sports icons like Harrison Butker, and even traditionally Center-Left journalists like Piers Morgan objected to the slur, Morgan on X asked whether the Olympics would “have mocked any other religion like this.”
And therein lays the disgusting, shortsighted, ignorant-to-reality rub.
Taking Pot-Shots
I have to agree with Bishop Robert Barron of the Catholic Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota when he said, “A question I would pose – we all know the answer to it: Would they ever have dared mock Islam in a similar way? Would they ever have dreamed of mocking in this gross, you know, public way a scene from the Quran?”
Truth be told, if the IOC and its French counterpart had mocked Islam in this way, Paris would have been burned to the ground overnight. The violent response from the Islamic refugee population in Paris alone would have been too much for authorities to tamp down, a testimony to why measured immigration laws are so crucial.
Ironic in all of this is the fact that while Christian doctrine does not acquiesce to the postmodern sexuality of the LGBTQ+ movement, Christians themselves example the tolerance towards those in the LGBTQ+ community that simply doesn’t exist in any Islamic country and throughout a great many nations in Africa, Indonesia, and Asia. Yet, the LGBTQ+ community lashes out at Christians?
In many Islamic countries, homosexuality is considered a crime and is punishable by law, including penalties of imprisonment and, most often, death. In Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, identifying as a member of the LGBTQ+ community opens you up to capital punishment per the edicts of the Quran. One report alone states that in 2022, Iran alone executed 299 people for having same-sex relations.
So, what is it about the LGBTQ+ community that sees them so arrogantly swiping at a mainstream religion that actually has the mandate to pray for those who they see as transgressing the laws of God and not calling out – or mocking – an alleged “great religion” of 1.9 billion people who not only have the mandate to kill them but actually do kill them?
Ignorance of the realities of the world? Laziness in their delinquency to understand the Islamic culture’s view of their lifestyle? Or is it cowardice in taking aim at those they know won’t strike back at them for their slurs and affronts?
This reeks of the ignorance of the reparations movement in the United States that consistently and without fail turns a blind eye to slavery that still exists around the world and the slavery that is resulting from the open US southern border.
An excellent article by Mattias Desmet on the issue:
Quite Frankly, My Dear…
If you are like me, you don’t give a damn what people do sexually in the privacy of their own home if it doesn’t involve felony criminal acts or involving children. I simply don’t care. Whether I find what people do sexually in private immoral is irrelevant because everyone has the freedom to decide for themselves – again, if it doesn’t involve felony criminal acts or children.
But the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion brigade of the secularist – and frankly Marxist – postmodern movement that has taken it upon itself to mandate total public acceptance of everything the LGBTQ+ community does – regardless of how extreme it is – has crossed a line that they must honor. If I am required to “understand” their lifestyle and “respect” their choices, that understanding and respect has to be reciprocal, not unilaterally unrequited and then vilified.
Yet, today, in a country where the ideological Left – including the overwhelming majority of the LGBTQ+ community – alleges they stand for tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion, they show no such things for those who don’t completely acquiesce to their every whim. Instead, and this bears out in everything from Hollywood to advertising, from government to the Olympics, they seek an attention-seeking over-representation in every corner of society and a complete tolerance for their ideological slaps at any one or any culture – and any belief – that doesn’t nurse at the LGBTQ+ teet.
As I said, I don’t give a damn what you do sexually when you are in private, as long as it doesn’t involve felony crime or children. But I speak with great confidence in being correct when I say the overwhelming majority of us in the non-LGBTQ+ numbers are tired of the LGBTQ+ and DEI brigade's pushy, over-the-top arrogance.
Enough…oh, and the LGBTQ+ and French DEI brigade owe Christians around the world a heartfelt apology.
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