An American sponsor has left the Olympic organization due to their Friday opening ceremony featuring a drag queen rendition of the Last Supper.
On Saturday, Mississippi-based phone service provider C-Spire announced on Facebook that it intended to remove its advertisements from the XXXIII Olympiad.
“We were appalled by the parody of the Last Supper at the Paris Olympic opening ceremony,” the message stated. C Spire has decided to discontinue its Olympic advertising.
Tate Reeves, the Republican governor of Mississippi, applauded the telecom company’s choice.
According to Reeves, “I am delighted to see the business sector in Mississippi step up and put their foot down.” “There shall be no mocking of God. C. Spire drew a suitable, sensible line.
Religious communities were also outraged by the sacrilegious performance; French bishops condemned it as a “derision and ridicule of Christianity” and declared their support for “Christians on all continents who have been harmed by the outrageousness and provocation.”
Marion Maréchal, a politician from France, used social media to inform the public that the offensive exhibit was the work of a “left-wing minority” rather than speaking for France.
“To all the global Christians seeing the Paris 2024 celebration and experiencing offense from this drag queen rendition of the Last Supper, understand that it is not France speaking, but a left-wing minority prepared for any kind of provocation,” she wrote on X.
Thomas Jolly, the opening ceremony’s creative director, asserts that the performance was not meant to insult those in the purported minority who were in charge of it.
“Inclusion was our concept,” Jolly said to the press. Naturally, concerns arise when we wish to accommodate everyone and not leave anyone out.
“Subversiveness was not to be our topic. We had no intention of being subversive. Our conversation topic was diversity. “Diversity calls for unity,” he continued. “It was simple: we wanted to involve everyone. We have artistic and creative freedom in France. France is fortunate to live in a free country.
