The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics parodied the Leonardo DaVinci painting, The Last Supper, using drag queens to represent Jesus and the twelve disciples. The New York Post reported: “The Olympic drag performance comes just one day after Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris became the first sitting vice president to appear on an episode of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’” RuPaul himself a notorious drag queen.
Britannica says “drag queen” is “a man who dresses in women’s clothes and performs before an audience, typically staged in nightclubs and Gay Pride festivals.” Yet, what’s wrong with it? First and foremost, it blasphemes Jesus Christ. It profanes Him, who is God. It mocks and sullies Him, treats Him like He’s nothing, just a fable, easily warped by a comic portrayal because of His meaninglessness.
Second, this parody takes something that exemplifies holiness, this attribute of God, and turns it into something morally despicable. It debases and besmirches it, eliminates the reverence or sacredness of it. Does that offend you? Christians have been doing it for decades now both out of and in churches. Historically churches didn’t do that, but especially in the last thirty years, churches turn their worship into the perversity of rock music. They put Christian words to foul, fleshly, carnal, worldly music, associating that with God.
Third, the drag queen parody confuses the distinctions between sexes that God designed. God calls that an abomination, which is a personal offense to Him. Men wearing women’s apparel and vice versa violate God’s created design (Deut 22:5).
How can a woman cross-dress in our culture? What clothes would a "drag king" wear? The modern application of Deut. 22:5 seems very sexist against men, since the first half of the verse is completely ignored, but most professing Christians still find men in dresses offensive and would not tolerate it in their families and churches. Why the double standard?