Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker criticized the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics after one of the performances included drag queens, among other performers, parodying “The Last Supper.”
Butker, who went viral in May for sharing his faith-based views During a commencement speech at a Catholic university in Kansas, he took to social media to share his thoughts.
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker (7) celebrates after kicking the point after touchdown against the Philadelphia Eagles during the game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. (Denny Medley-USA Today Sports)
“This is crazy,” she wrote in a post on her Instagram Stories.
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He also added a passage from the Bible.
“Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked.”
In a clip of the post shared by Butker on his social media, several drag queens and other performers can be seen mocking the scene famously painted by Leonardo da Vinci, depicting Jesus and his apostles sharing a final meal before the crucifixion.
Performers walk the Debilly catwalk during the opening ceremony. Reuters/Tingshu Wang (Reuters/Tingshu Wang)
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The performance, in which a small child also participated, He received harsh criticism.
Other acts during the opening ceremony also received mixed reviews from viewers on social media. In one scene, a woman and two men were seen hugging each other, seemingly suggesting a threesome.
A headless depiction of Marie Antoinette, the last queen before the French Revolution, also drew criticism.
Headless figures representing 18th-century Queen Marie Antoinette perform along the embankment of the River Seine outside the Conciergerie, where the queen was held captive during the French Revolution, during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 26, 2024. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images)
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Thomas Jolly, artistic director of the opening ceremony, said the inspiration behind all the performances was to reinterpret the way the world sees France.
“The extraordinary thing is that everyone, both in France and in the rest of the world, has an idea of what France is. And I want to play with that, that's where I want to start: breaking clichés, because clichés come with other things,” she said, according to the Olympic website.
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