The 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris has ignited a firestorm of backlash due to its incorporation of drag-queen imagery depicting religious and historical figures.
This isn’t the Olympics I remember growing up…
I’m boycotting this evil sht! You…? pic.twitter.com/R15fAMu1I1 [1]
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 27, 2024 [2]
Amidst the customary procession of countries participating in the Olympic Games, the ceremony featured performances that many found offensive.
Olympic Boycott pic.twitter.com/FiwZTKDCXV [3]
— Matt Kim (@FreeMattKim) July 27, 2024 [4]
Notably, one act presented a headless Marie Antoinette, the last queen prior to her execution during the French Revolution, donning drag-style makeup and brandishing 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 [5]
— Western Exile (@westernexile) July 27, 2024 [6]
Furthermore, a recent display depicted a group of performers, incorporating drag queens and a plus-size woman donning an aureole halo crown, in a mockery of “The Last Supper,” a renowned painting by the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, portraying Christ and his apostles.
NEW: The Paris Olympics is under fire for including a *child* in their hyper-s*xualized, blasphemous rendition of The Last Supper.
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 [7]
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 26, 2024 [8]
Condemnation of the ceremony poured in from globally recognized political figures, particularly those within American politics, decrying the portrayal as emblematic of the decay within Western Civilization.
it’s a toxic blend of cultural Marxism, “body positivity”, and blasphemy.
— Albert Latham (@albert1776) July 26, 2024 [9]
“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 visionary behind Tesla and the X platform, rebuked the display, labeling it “extremely disrespectful to Christians.”
This was extremely disrespectful to Christians
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2024 [10]
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 [11]
— Harrison Butker (@buttkicker7) July 26, 2024 [12]
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.”
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. pic.twitter.com/OeW2B6fvEK [13]
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 26, 2024 [14]
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 [15]
— Ken Climo (@Ken_Climo) July 27, 2024 [16]