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Phillippe Katerine, the performer who dressed as the semi-naked blue
man in the Olympic scene, said that the performance “was mostly a misunderstanding. Because when it comes down to it, it wasn’t about representing ‘the Last Supper’ at all.”

Barbara Butch, the DJ at the center of the skit, wrote in a now
inaccessible Instagram post that she “was the Greek God of the Sun,
Apollo, and referenced Jan van Bijlert’s painting ‘The Feast of the
Gods,’ which is displayed in a French art museum.”

Snopes “fact checker” Jack Izzo writes, “So at the end of the segment, when the top of a large serving platter rose to reveal a blue man
(French singer Phillippe Katerine) wrapped in grapevines, Jolly was
not referencing Jesus and ‘The Last Supper,’ but rather Dionysus, the
Greek God of wine and festivity.”

Writing for MSNBC, Anthea Butler commented, “The moral panic over a
scene of drag queens feasting at the opening ceremony of the Paris
Olympics set off a firestorm of outrage from religious conservatives
and politicians who believed the scene was a mockery of the Last
Supper. Except it wasn’t about the Last Supper at all.”

Sally Jenkins writes in the Washington Post, “That drag queen sequence
was meant to refer, like Delville, to Greek pagan celebrations — not,
as some Christian leaders insist, to mock Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The
Last Supper.'”

Louise Marshall, an honorary senior lecturer at the University of
Sydney and an expert in Renaissance Art, is quoted in the New York
Times as saying, “Frankly, when I looked at the clips, ‘The Last
Supper’ isn’t necessarily what springs to mind. It seems very
lighthearted and funny and witty and very inclusive.”

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said on the July 29 show that “The
guy that put it all together said it was from ‘The Feast of the Gods,’ which is a 17th Century Dutch painting of the Greek Olympian gods, you
know, the Olympian gods because it’s the Olympics.” She further stated “There are too many people in the picture for it to be the 12
disciples and then the seven or eight other people in the picture.”
Dutch art historian Walther Schoonenberg posted on X that “The tableau vivant or ‘living painting’ in the opening ceremony of Paris 2024 was
of The Feast of the Gods, by Jan van Bijlert from 1635.”

In an Instagram post, “Full House” actress Jodie Sweetin said, “The
drag queens of the Olympics were re-creating the feast of Dionysus,
not the last supper.” The post continued “And even if you thought it
was a Christian reference — what’s the harm? Why is it a ‘parody’ and
not a tribute? Can drag queens not be Christian too?”

Donna Kelce, the mother of NFL stars Travis and Jason Kelce, shared a Facebook post by user Jeff Rose that said, “The Opening Ceremony of
the Olympics wasn’t a mock of the Last Supper. If you have any
knowledge of the Greek origin of the Olympics and the French’s rich
history of theater you would have gotten this. However, because of
your veiled homophobia, some of you can’t discern factual
information.”

All of these people are guilty of denying the truth. Worse, they seek
to blame those who are offended for misrepresenting Jolly’s obscene
and bigoted portrayal. What he did is hate speech, and attempts to
justify it are as obscene as his stunt.

https://www.catholicleague.org/olympic-stunt-deniers-proven-wrong/

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