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It’s a biblical representation that has been reused in pop culture for decades and it’s never really been a problem.”

“There were no real provocations or anything that was truly obscene. Chief Ron Thomas is a good guy but maybe he should start kicking some rear-ends.

Jim Hannifin Sr., Denver

Skimpy women’s uniforms raise questions about respect

Have we lost our sense of dignity, respect, and honor for the professionals who work so diligently to prepare themselves to be worthy of performing for the world’s greatest audience?

If people have taken any offense we are, of course, really, really sorry.”

Thomas Jolly, the ceremony’s artistic director, in his own remarks to the Associated Press about the event said it was meant to celebrate diversity and pay tribute to feasting and French gastronomy.

“My wish isn’t to be subversive, nor to mock or to shock,” he said, saying, “Most of all, I wanted to send a message of love, a message of inclusion and not at all to divide.”

The apology was made in response to a wave of backlash from Catholics, members of other Christian communities, atheists, and members of other faith groups to the July 26 opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics, which featured a group of scantily clad men in drag dancing provocatively while parodying the Last Supper.

RELATED: Bishops around the world blast Last Supper parody at Paris Olympics

At one point, the genitalia of a man wearing short black hotpants was exposed while a little girl stood in front of him, in front of what was supposed to be the table.

Catholic leaders from around the world, including the French bishops conference and two Vatican officials, condemned the incident, with at least one, Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and adjunct secretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, making a formal complaint to the French ambassador to Malta, encouraging others to do the same.

Some commentators in the wake of the controversy, including Jolly, have claimed that the performance was evocative of the feast of Dionysus, rather than the Last Supper, as a nod to the Greek roots of the Olympic games.

However, the artists who participated in the parody have confirmed in online social media posts and in comments to the press that the performance was, in fact, intended to imitate Leonardo da Vinci’s famed painting of the Last Supper.

Franch drag queen and rapper Piche from the show Drag Race France spoke to French media, saying the intention was to create a tableau of the Last Supper in the pouring rain.

“I received a lot of messages of support and people who were very happy that I was there and very surprised that there were drag queens at the opening ceremony,” he said, saying the opposition to the performance indicates that “we’ve succeeded and we’ve done what had to be done, that we’ve been fair and representative.”

“Art always divides.

So don’t give me this business about tolerance and diversity,” he said.

Referring to Descamps’s statement that their goal of celebrating tolerance was achieved, Barron asked rhetorically, “I wonder what planet they’re living on if they think that harmony and peace and all this was achieved by this clear affront to Christians.”

Barron also condemned the wording of the apology as condescending, saying the tone does not read apologetic, but rather says, “if you’re so simple minded and stupid to have been offended by this wonderful expression of French culture, well, we’re sorry about that.”

“Christians were offended because it was offensive.

And it was intended to be offensive. The only time that I see a live police person is at stores or events that rent them. Music sounds better with all of Us!”

Butch posted an image of the drag parody of the Last Supper above an image of Da Vinci’s original painting to her Instagram account with the comment, “Oh yes!

In Thursday’s New York Times there is a report of Denver’s traffic stops in 2022 being down 62% and road deaths up 21% since 2019. Oh yes! Rewarding illegal aliens for their proficiency at breaking our laws is neither right nor fair.

Gordon Carleton, Pueblo West

Dwindling police presence, traffic enforcement

Re: “Cities scaled back traffic stops, and road deaths soared,” New York Times news story, Aug.

I’ve come to think that the Denver Police Department has become a public Rent-a-Cop operation. My aim is to unite people, gather humans & share love through music for all of Us to dance & make our hearts beat (in unison)! I continually hear about how long a call for service takes and still see a multitude of expired license plates.

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From now on, the focus should be on sport and the athletes whose achievements are the very essence of the Olympic Games,” they said.

This piece has been updated to include a statement from the German Bishops’ Conference.

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Something’s fishy in Paris

Apparently, many people think all the backlash for the Paris Olympic opening ceremony is from uneducated, right-wing Christian zealots who should “learn something,” “chill,” or, as The View’s Caryn Elaine “Whoopie” Johnson advised, “just turn the TV off.”

I am a rube — of the nonreligious, apolitical variety.

As long as it doesn’t move people, it’s not art for me,” he said, saying the depiction of the Last Supper “is not a provocation. Appalling decision.”

And to give you some idea of the scale of the offense caused, my opinion has so far had 11 million views and been “liked” 163,000 times — by far the biggest response to anything I’ve posted in several years.

The comments were almost universally furious, and I fully understand why.

As I wrote, it’s unthinkable that Olympics chiefs would have allowed other religions like Islam, Judaism or Hinduism to have been so crudely ridiculed in this way.

So why did they allow the world’s biggest faith to be singled out, especially in a country like France, where 50% of the population are Christians?

It was so obviously repellent that not only did Christian leaders express outrage, led by a statement from French Catholic bishops which raged against the “scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity, which we deeply deplore,” but leaders of other faiths issued statements of solidarity, including Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Muslim learning, which attacked the decision to “depict Jesus Christ in an offensive manner, disrespecting his honorable person and the high status of prophecy in a reckless barbaric way that does not respect the feelings of believers in religions and high human morals and values.”

It’s been wrongly reported that Olympics organizers have since “apologized’” for the sickening skit.

They haven’t.

Instead, they just pretended they never meant to upset anyone.

“There was clearly never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group,” said Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps.

I am referencing the nearly naked volleyball women participants as well as the barely there swimsuits in certain swimming competitions. Dionysus is the androgynous god of ritual madness and ecstasy, among other things.

Catholicism impedes the LGBTQ movement’s doctrine of Hedonism.

Let’s permit the Jesus portrayer from the Olympics spectacle, Barbara Butch, to speak to the production’s intent: “OH YES, OH YES, THE NEW GAY TESTAMENT!”

This exclamation captioned two juxtaposed photos on Butch’s Instagram: the drag-queen tableau and “The Last Supper painting.” Her post has been deleted.

Scott R.

Hammond, Denver

Rewarding illegal immigration is not right or fair

Re: “Demonizing illegal immigrants is a betrayal of America,” July 20 letter to the editor

What this letter writer and all the illegal immigration advocates conveniently choose not to acknowledge when they misappropriate the innocuous “immigrant” moniker, is that while our nation was most certainly built by immigrants, those immigrants were compelled to comply with the laws of our nation instead of rationalizing their breaking them to illegally gain entry.

It’s easy to allege respect for the United States, citizenship, and the rule of law, but how much respect can illegal aliens have for our nation and its laws if they’re willing and eager to rationalize breaking them?

Isn’t it illogical and unfair to try to group people coming here illegally in the same category as legal immigrants when earlier generations of legal immigrants, who came through Ellis Island, were screened and their identities verified, not all who came were accepted, and many were sent back for legal and health reasons.

So how are all the letter writer’s rationalizations fair to all the other potential legal immigrants, from all over the world, who would love the opportunity to play by the rules instead of cutting in line.

Not all illegal aliens are as harmless, benign, or innocuous as some may perceive.

Spare me the Olympic-size hypocrisy over sickening ‘Last Supper’ drag skit

Somebody caused offense at the Olympics over the weekend.

It was something judged so horribly inappropriate, tasteless and antithetical to the spirit of the Games that the culprit was unceremoniously fired.

The severe punishment was instantly applauded by a horrified world.

“When will these people ever learn?” declared one furious professor from a British university on X.

“Why aren’t they being given some kind of training?”

Another outraged commenter ordered the miscreant to “hang your head in shame!”

And there were demands for a public apology for the “disgusting” incident, which was so bad, it was immediately branded “outrageous” by one of their co-workers sitting beside them.

Now, at this point, you might be assuming that I’m talking about whoever decided it was a good idea to desecrate the Last Supper at the opening ceremony with a jaw-droppingly repulsive drag-act mockery of one of the most important and symbolic moments in the life of Jesus Christ.

But no, I wasn’t.

In fact, I’m talking about a Eurosport commentator named Bob Ballard, who, as the gold medal-winning Australian women’s freestyle swimming relay team left the Paris Aquatic center, quipped: “Well, the women just finishing up.

Kate Steinle, Laken Riley, and Jocelyn Nagaray would very likely disagree with him if only they could.

Unfortunately, there are political groups whose goal is to enable and facilitate illegal aliens breaking our nation’s laws to increase their membership. If people have taken any offense, we’re of course really sorry.”

What a load of disingenuous bulls–t.

Others have tried to claim it wasn’t a lampoon of the Last Supper at all but in fact inspired by a 17th-century Dutch painting of Greek Olympian gods at the Feast of Dionysus.

But if that’s the case, then why did Barbara Butch, the self-styled “fat, Jewish, queer lesbian” DJ seen in the middle playing the role of Jesus, post to her Instagram account a now-deleted picture of the scene above Da Vinci’s painting of the Last Supper and caption it: “Oh Yes!

Oh Yes! The New Gay Testament!”?

They knew exactly what they were doing.

Butch says her aim in life is to “unite people” and “share love,” but all she and her fellow mockers achieved is helping to cause huge disunity and anger.

Not that you would realize it if you heard the verdict of America’s first lady Jill Biden — who was in attendance — and said the opening ceremony was “spectacular … every step of the way.”

Really, Dr.

Biden?

Why don’t you run that by the congregation of the churches in Washington and Delaware that you and Joe regularly attend as committed Christians?

Trust me, they won’t be using the word “spectacular” about this appalling display of deeply offensive blasphemy.

ROME – Representatives of the Paris 2024 Olympics Committee have apologized to anyone offended by a drag parody of the Last Supper during the opening ceremony, insisting that their intention was to foster inclusion and celebrate diversity.

Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps was asked about the outcry during an International Olympic Committee news conference Sunday, saying in response, “Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group.”

“On the contrary, I think (with) Thomas Jolly, we really did try to celebrate community tolerance,” she said, adding, “Looking at the result of the polls that we shared, we believe that this ambition was achieved.

Is it necessary to expose women’s bodies in this way and does the brief attire advance chances of winning the gold?

Constance Grotel, Lakewood

Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns, editorials and more. This obvious interpretation is supported by statements from the participating artists,” the German bishops said.

While they reiterated their respect for artistic freedom and creativity, the bishops voiced their belief that “critical comments are appropriate and necessary when the representations touch on central elements of our faith and other religions and the religious sensibilities of believers are seriously violated.”

“In the weeks ahead, we hope for events in the spirit of fair competition and peaceful understanding between peoples and cultures.

A drag queen mockery of the Last Supper at the Olympics? Even with my backwoods education, I immediately discerned central figures in colors and poses reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-century painting “The Last Supper.” Olympics organizers reported that Jan van Bijlert’s “The Feast of the Gods,” painted over a century later, was the purported muse for this production.
This was followed by an infusion of Greco-Roman mythology.

Of course, by helping them evade consequences for their illegal actions, they created an obligation to support and vote for the political groups supporting them.
Right is right, wrong is wrong, and fair is fair.