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A Paris drag queen — who goes by the name Nicky Doll — “loves” people being outraged by what’s been called a blasphemous parody of The Last Supper during the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.  Doll — born Karl Sanchez — was one of the drag queen torch bearers for the summer Olympics and performed in The Last Supper parody which had an obese woman wearing an aureole as Jesus surrounded by drag queens as the Apostles, a decapitated head representing Marie Antoinette of the French Revolution, and drag queens dancing around children. “The opening ceremony did ruffle some feathers … and I LOVE it,” Doll wrote on his Instagram Stories.”You know why? Because the Olympics are the biggest stage in the world and us queer people have always been the audience of other people’s life and achievement and it is time that we are welcome in the space.” “It was my absolute honor to perform in front of billions of people around the world, and celebrate our Olympians,” Doll’s post continued. “And remember, to the ones that had their feathers ruffled seeing queerness on their screen: WE AIN’T GOING NOWHERE.” Following the backlash against the Olympics over the anti-Christian scene, Anne Descamps, a spokesperson for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games told a press conference, “If people have taken any offense we are really sorry.”  Today’s cover: Paris Olympics organizers apologize for ‘shocking’ drag ‘Last Supper’ tableau https://t.co/ZDh7yLPBlm pic.twitter.com/qMF5Cv9eGG — New York Post (@nypost) July 29, 2024 “Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. (The opening ceremony) tried to celebrate community tolerance,” Descamps told reporters, via Reuters. “We believe this ambition was achieved.” NFL kicker Harrison Butker was one of the many people who blasted the Olympics for the scene in the opening ceremony, as previously reported. “This is crazy,” Butker wrote on social media, along with a Bible quote. He quoted scripture on X, writing, “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.” Thomas Jolly, creative director of the opening ceremony depictions, had this to say about his vision. “The extraordinary thing is that everyone in France and the rest of the world has an idea of what France is all about. And I want to play with that, that’s where I want to start from – breaking down clichés, because clichés come along other things,” Jolly said, according to the Olympics website. “Above all, I want this ceremony to include everyone. We must all celebrate this diversity,” he added. Related: Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker Reacts To Olympics Opening Ceremony: ‘God Is Not Mocked’

Democrats are suggesting JD Vance is personally weird. He’s not. He is happily married. He has kids. He regularly attends church. There’s nothing about JD Vance that screams “weird.” Democrats are saying he’s weird because he believes weird things. They cite his comment in 2021, when he stated, “We are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. That is a basic fact. Look at Kamala Harris, AOC, and the like; the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t have a direct stake in it?” The argument I think he should have been making is that it is very important in society to have kids. It is a morally superior decision to have kids. It is. We can pretend that it is a matter of complete apathy as to whether human beings have children. But all of social development, all of human survival, relies on people having children. If we have a choice as a society whether to promote childbearing and child-rearing or whether to not promote it, that is not a matter of apathy in the slightest. Now, three years later, Vance has explained himself, saying, “This comment that I made was actually motivated in part by a conversation I had with my wife where she at the time had two babies. We hadn’t yet had a third, and she was talking about how she felt this incredible professional pressure to not have kids because it’s set back her professional advancement. And what a weird society that we’ve set up where moms who want to work, the thought that a lot of them are having is, ‘I can’t have more babies because it’s going to be bad for my career.’ How about we make the workplace more accommodating to working moms and working dads so that we can promote a real culture of life?” The reason Democrats are targeting Vance as weird is that they don’t want Republicans painting Kamala Harris as weird. This is a dog that is not going to hunt particularly well, even though the media is parroting the charge against Vance in unison. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show The Democratic media complex rides again; they are all in coordination. And you can sense the joie de vivre in the media. They’re back to eating cartons of ice cream and making fun of Vance, their favorite thing to do. They’re going to try and say that if you point out that Harris is weird on policy and also weird personally, that means you are racist and sexist, that the actual weirdo is the perfectly normal guy from Ohio who’s married with kids, goes to a Catholic church, and believes in traditional family values. What is actually weird is believing that the choice of having children versus the choice of not having children are morally equivalent. They are not. Or that those choices are societally equivalent in terms of their benefit to society. They are not. All functioning societies are rooted in a traditional family structure that is built around having kids. That is utterly uncontroversial, as proven by our priors. Every society is rooted in the little platoons represented by families, and those families have to be built for the future — or the society doesn’t have a future. The alternative perspective, which believes that all personal choice is not a matter of social impact or morality, is a peculiarly Western-educated, post-Christian idea. And that’s weird.