Another day, another bishop is having a hissy fit.
Quote:Bishop condemns UNL student's drag performance mocking Catholic Mass
Bishop James Conley of the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln has expressed outrage over a University of Nebraska-Lincoln doctoral student's drag performance that is said to have mocked Catholicism. The performance, composed by Joesph Willette, a graduate student attending UNL, sparked controversy and criticism from religious and conservative groups.
According to the UNL's commencement program Willette earned a doctoral of musical arts in composition. The drag performance was one of the final things he did before graduating.
The show imitated different tradition parts of Catholic Mass and featured different hymns from Gloria to Sanctus. The event was hosted by Our Saviour's Lutheran Church on Apr. 12, 2025 in Lincoln and was a recording was posted to YouTube shortly after.
The Diocese of Lincoln described the performance as "disturbing and appalling," criticizing it as a "blatant public display of faith-based discrimination." He called on the university to take action against those who encouraged the performance, stating, "There is no redeeming value in such a display of ignorance."
The performance was described by Willette as a culmination of his studies in music composition and gender, sexuality and queer communities. Willette said through social media to explain that the work juxtaposed "the holy and the profane, the sacred and the sinful."
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
