Several U.S. and international lawmakers have condemned the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics after drag queens and artists featured an exaggerated rendition of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” a painting that depicts Jesus having his final meal with his apostles.
“Last night’s mockery of ‘The Last Supper’ is shocking and offensive to Christians around the world who watched the Olympic opening ceremony,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, said in a post on X. “The battle against our faith and traditional values is now endless, but we know that truth and virtue always triumph.”
He then referred to the Bible, John 1:15, which says, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness could not overcome the light.”
Republican Senator Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia also took to her social media platforms to voice her opposition to the inauguration and those running the ceremony.
Drag queen parodies ‘The Last Supper’ at Olympic opening ceremony, sparks outrage: ‘Totally woke’
Delegates arrive at the Trocadero as a crowd watches French singer Philippe Catherine perform on a giant screen during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024, in Paris. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via The Associated Press)
“The French Olympic Committee is working hard to remove satanic, transgender and occult videos of the Opening Ceremony, asserting copyright law,” she wrote. “Sharing these videos is our First Amendment right and we firmly oppose the anti-Christian Olympic Opening Ceremony.”
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini posted a picture of drag queens over a photo of the Last Supper and criticised the behaviour.
“It’s a really bad start, dear French people, to open the Olympics with an insult to billions of Christians around the world,” he wrote. “Vulgar.”
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Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini responded to the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics: (Reuters/Antonio Parrinello)
Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican, Eduard Habsburg, referring to the beheading of Marie Antoinette, said, “Because the beheading of a Habsburg and the mockery of a central event in Christianity are the two first things that come to mind when one thinks of Christianity.” [the Olympic Games]”
Three drag queen torchbearers appear along the Paris Olympic torch relay route
Fox Nation host Piers Morgan, who is not a member of Congress, posted a picture of drag queens at a table and asked: “What the hell was that all about?”
“Drag queens at the Olympics mocking the Last Supper? Would they mock other religions like this? A terrible decision,” Morgan wrote.
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“An outrage that is not surprising. Imagine what would happen if they mocked Islam like this,” he wrote in another post.
