{"id":1660,"date":"2024-07-28T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2024-07-28T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T19:13:08","slug":"olympic-games-organizers-send-loud-clear-message-to-anyone-who-was-offended-by-their-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Games Organizers Send Loud &#038; Clear Message To Anyone Who Was Offended By Their Opening Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Olympic Games got off to a controversial start on Friday night, with the opening ceremony angering many people, especially those of the Christian faith.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-sm-content-width\" data-content-name=\"mai-video-player\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"mai-ad-video mai-connatix\" data-al=\"content\" data-unit=\"tpsplayer\" data-content-name=\"mai-ad-content-tpsplayer\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div id=\"cnx-outside\">\n<p>At one point, a segment featuring drag queens seemed to parody \u201cThe Last Supper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the organizers has responded to the backlash with claims that this was an attempt at showing tolerance, which they reckon was achieved.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cClearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. (The opening ceremony) tried to celebrate community tolerance,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Anne Descamps told reporters, via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/olympics\/paris-2024-apologises-any-offence-caused-by-last-supper-sketch-2024-07-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense, we are really sorry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Paris 2024 organisers have apologised for any offence caused by &#8216;Last Supper&#8217; sketch<\/p>\n<p>The segment featured drag queens, a transgender model &amp; a naked singer made up as the Greek god of wine Dionysus <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7M9V3bCbTW\">https:\/\/t.co\/7M9V3bCbTW<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OlympicsOpeningCeremony?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OlympicsOpeningCeremony<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PARIS2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PARIS2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mST4JyWB5W\">pic.twitter.com\/mST4JyWB5W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Video Forensics (@Video_Forensics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Video_Forensics\/status\/1817522893452161050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>James Leperlier, a French LGBTQ leader, has also claimed that the ceremony did not go far enough.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mai-link-exclude has-alt-background-color has-background has-light-background has-xs-padding-top has-xs-padding-bottom has-sm-padding-left has-sm-padding-right has-xl-margin-top has-xl-margin-bottom\" data-content-name=\"Google News Follow Us\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>French LGBTQ leader James Leperlier suggested that the Opening Ceremony was not a true representation of France.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe know in the LGBTQ community in France we are far from what the ceremony showed. There\u2019s much progress to do in society regarding transgender people. It\u2019s terrible that to legally change their identity they are forced to be on trial,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the Inter-LGBT president said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you saw the opening ceremony last night you\u2019d think it was like that normally, but it\u2019s not. France tried to show what it should be and not what it is.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-american-priest-makes-his-feelings-clear-on-olympic-games-opening-ceremony\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">American Priest Makes His Feelings Clear On Olympic Games Opening Ceremony<\/h2>\n<p>An American Catholic priest lashed out at the segment, referring to it as a mockery of one of Christianity\u2019s most important moments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cFrance felt evidently, as it\u2019s trying to put its best cultural foot forward, the right thing to do is to mock this very central moment in Christianity, where Jesus at His Last Supper gives His body and blood in anticipation of the cross. And so it\u2019s presented though as this gross sort of flippant mockery,\u201d Bishop Robert Barron said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance, which used to be called the eldest daughter of the church, Paris, that gave us \u2013 Thomas Aquinas taught there, and Vincent De Paul was there, and King Louis IX \u2013 St. Louis. France has sent Catholic missionaries all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance, whose culture \u2013 and I mean the honoring of the individual, of human rights, of freedom \u2013 is grounded very much in Christianity, felt the right thing to do is mock the Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, folks, what\u2019s interesting here is this deeply secularist, postmodern society knows who its enemy is. They\u2019re naming it. And we should believe them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Friends, my thoughts on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olimpiadas2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olimpiadas2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OlympicGames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OlympicGames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xU1ljFMZft\">pic.twitter.com\/xU1ljFMZft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BishopBarron\/status\/1816989733504860577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Barron is hardly the only one to have spoken out against this, with many claiming they will not watch the Olympic Games due to what they consider a huge slight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"incontent-ad-4\" class=\"pw-incontent\" data-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<p>In any case, it continues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Olympic Games got off to a controversial start on Friday night, with the opening ceremony angering many people, especially those of the Christian faith. 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