A scene from Friday’s Paris Olympics opening ceremony continued to generate online buzz all weekend, after conservatives slammed it as a blasphemous mockery of “The Last Supper” — and the event’s creative director said it was an homage to something else entirely.
The segment in question involved what many critics interpreted as a drag-inspired parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-century painting portraying Jesus Christ and his 12 disciples at his final meal before he was crucified.
In front of a flamboyantly dressed crowd at a long table, a near-naked man in blue sang and danced after he was unveiled on a plate of fruit and flowers.
Many on the American right lambasted it as anti-Christian, including Donald Trump Jr., Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who said it was part of a larger “war on our faith.” Greene and Trump Jr. suggested the ceremony was “satanic.”
However, as the event was taking place, the official Olympics…