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Perverts Pirouette In Paris

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By DR. CHRISTOPHER MANION, KM

“Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group,” Olympics spokesperson Anne Descamps calmly lied as she responded to the worldwide uproar after the demonic depiction of the Last Supper at the Olympics’ opening ceremonies July 26. “If people have taken any offense, we are really sorry.”

“Really sorry.” Right.

Thomas Jolly, the “artistic director” of the billion-dollar disaster wasn’t sorry, but he admitted being “baffled” by the outrage caused by the perverse spectacle.

Leave it to the sodomites — they’re always “baffled” that we’re “offended,” implying not an apology but an indelicate insult to our failure to “grow” in the smarmy spirit of empathy.

What’s Jolly really telling us?

“So your family loves sports, you eagerly tuned in as the Opening Ceremony began, and NBC shoved an X-rated blasphemy in your face. And you’re ‘offended?’ That’s just baffling! I can’t understand why you don’t let me soften up your kids for the next overture from a gay groomer or a government school union member to seduce them.”

Well, actually, Thomas (I mean Jolly, not his partner, whose name is also Thomas), I’m not baffled, I’m mad as Hell and want to have you arrested for baiting, taming, and then grooming millions of innocent boys and girls around the world. 

“Our idea was inclusion,” he said. “Naturally, when we want to include everyone and not exclude anyone, questions are raised.”

“Naturally?” Surprise, he’s right. When we’re dragged into a sewer of smut and slime, it’s only natural to fight back. “We never wanted to be subversive,” Jolly insists, which means, of course, that subversion was exactly what he had in mind: “This is the world of amateur sports, kids — if you want to play, get used to it, because we run the joint and we’ll rub your nose in it.”

But “inclusion” was not enough. Let’s get specific — what does Thomas want to include? “We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together. We wanted to include everybody.” Well, to Mr. Jolly, “diversity” means “perversity,” and if you don’t like it, take up bowling or bridge, because the world of amateur sports is now morally corrupted beyond repair.

Actually, this perversion plague has a history. Emmanuel Macron, President of France, and proud paragon of the Paris Olympics, has been championing “abortion rights” for years. In 2022 he tried to force the European Union to include it in its “Charter of Fundamental Rights”; when that failed, he attempted to insert it into the French Constitution, and failed again, but his dogged persistence finally paid off: this past March, the text of the Constitution of France was amended to include abortion as a “basic right.”

So it’s no surprise that on July 27, a day after Jolly’s debacle, Macron “hailed the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, saying the bold showpiece on the River Seine had made France extremely proud,” Le Monde reported. Macron added that he “he’d been working on the ‘great spectacle’ for seven years.”

Seven years. A model of moral dissolution. But the corruption in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) goes back even further.
                Avery Brundage, the brilliant American who headed the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1929 to 1953 and the IOC from 1952 to 1972, had polished the Olympic tradition to a luster admired throughout the world. But then Juan Antonio Samaranch who bribed his way into heading the IOC for the next twenty years, introduced big-time corruption, favoritism, and politics into its membership and management.
                If Avery Brundage had sensed even a whiff of the filth that paraded in Paris last Friday, he’d have fired the whole lot of them. But the stench of Samaranch still floats like sewage down the Seine, and no one will be fired. They’re all so disappointed that we even bother to be offended!

Catholic Leaders Speak Out

Prelates from the Holy Land, France, Iraq, and the United States were among the dozens who spoke out strongly about the blasphemous performance. In The Catholic Thing, Father Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap., described the harrowing spiritual danger faced by those involved.
                “As almost everyone now knows, there was a mocking display of the Last Supper where Jesus was portrayed as an obese female dressed in white.  She was surrounded by a gaggle of drag queen ‘apostles,’ and a young girl was also — we should worry why? — included in this hypersexualized and sacrilegious depiction.

                Now, did those who made mockery of Jesus and his apostles not know that Jesus is the Spirit-filled Messiah? The answer to this question is “No.” If they did not know, what they did may be unseemly and tasteless, but they would not, because of their ignorance, be guilty of the unforgivable sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit. However, it is precisely because they did know that Jesus is the Father’s incarnate Spirit-filled Son that they mocked him, and so blasphemed the Holy Spirit. Contempt was the whole point of their blasphemous portrayal.
Thus, the entire event was demonic. The devil desires nothing more than for Jesus to be blasphemed, for Jesus, through his saving death and glorious resurrection, destroyed Satan’s kingdom. Satan clearly knows who Jesus is and what he is about. “Ah! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us?  I know who you are, the Holy One of God” (Luke 4:34).

The Perversion Parade Comes Closer To Home

Less than 24 hours after the Olympic spectacle, several “drag queens” pranced into the small Virginia town of Front Royal to put on a “Pride Parade.”
                Why did they choose a small, conservative town for an event that “featured performances from several area drag queens?”
                “Smalltown Prides are the best because it really hits home,” longtime drag performer “Chasity [sic] Vain” told a star-struck local reporter. “It’s family friendly. There are a ton of kids out here. It’s just a good time. It’s a great time to support your neighbors, support your friends. You are not alone. This whole community is here for you — in your hometown.”
                Got that, folks? “We’re right here, and ready to support your kids.”
And that’s not all — we’ll hug them, too!
                Event organizer Kammi Mills gushed, “It’s the best thing I’ve ever done. There’s nothing better than giving a kid a hug who doesn’t get one at home. To be able to give something to a kid who’s been treated like that … it’s terrific.”
                Ms. Mills let the proverbial cat out of the bag with that one, and her remark reflects the hidden contempt that the left has demonstrated for the family since the eighteenth century.
                In the 1860’s, John Swett, California Superintendent of Education, identified the family, especially parents, as the true enemy of public education. “Children belong to the state, not to the family,” he said, removing the influence of parents as much as possible from the educational process town by California town. Swett, a Unitarian, was especially hostile to Catholics, whose schools he thought of as evil corruptors.
                Drag Queen Kammi’s comment reflects the attitude of many in the government school unions today, who frequently claim that “we’re the best friends those kids have,” as they malign the backward and protective homes their students come from.
                Parents are the enemy, always intrusive, always bossing those poor teachers around. Thank goodness they have the union to protect them. And it’s no surprise that California’s largest public school employees union, the “California Teachers Association” (CTA), names its most prestigious annual award after the man who founded the union in the nineteenth century: John Swett.

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