Christians Decry Olympic Opening Ceremony Featuring Drag Queen ‘Last Supper’

Catholics and other Christians spoke out strongly over the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony staging a parody of Jesus Christ’s Last Supper featuring provocatively dressed drag queens. The outrage was swift after the July 26 performance. “Would they ever have dared mock Islam in a similar way?” Catholic Bishop Robert Barron of the Winona-Rochester Diocese in Minnesota said on the social media platform X. “This deeply secularist, post-modern society knows who its enemy is—they’re naming it—and we should believe them.” The controversial tableau scene featured drag artists representing different cultures posed behind a long dining table while a woman wearing an ornate silver halo stood in the middle....