In a highly offensive sermon, Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail, of Jubilee Episcopal Church in Austin, TX, gave a sermon where she compared Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem, celebrated on Palm Sunday, to a drag show. The woke preacher said that “Jesus’s triumphant drag queen entry into Jerusalem” serves as an example for how her church should resist “fascism” in America.
For context, Palm Sunday is the Christian holiday that marks the beginning of Holy Week and commemorates Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The day is named for the palm branches that crowds spread on the ground as Jesus rode into the city of Jerusalem.
Beginning her bizarre rant, Rev. McManus-Dail went on a tirade about so-called fascism in the U.S. She said, “Jesus’s triumphant drag queen entry into Jerusalem is doomed. Much of fascism is a bluff. Look at our loyal cult. Listen to our outrageous language, heed our threats of violence. We are inevitable. It’s a bluff. It’s a ridiculous mirage of might that is made up to make us feel small and in the face of this, Jesus laughs, because that is what Palm Sunday is.”
Building out her audacious argument, she claimed, “It is a total drag, a total drag show of a military parade, homespun and homemade, with the simple things that people simply had on hand. Jesus didn’t need shiny armor or powerful horses or lions in chains, because Jesus is the Lion of Judah, and Jesus, in this moment, is doing a drag show.”
Stroking her own ego, the woke preacher cited her book. The Epischoal preacher said, “Not to like quote myself, but I do talk about this in my book, and I have a chapter called a drag queen Messiah that I want to read from drag is a performance art form that takes the bazaar and the banal to an extreme, holding up a mirror to our lives so we can find humor and release in the silliness of being alive.”
Still not done, McManus-Dail bloviated on the history of drag. She explained, “Drag Queens use bold makeup and exaggerated dance moves to illuminate the ludicrous beauty standards and at the same time, uplift what is beautiful in the mundane reality of life. Drag is an art form that is rooted in protest, in unraveling gender roles and in unspooling militaristic masculinity through femininity.”
Continuing her screed, she said, “As drag artist Sasha Velour says, the art of drag is able to create something new in the mixing of seeming opposites. Drag uses artifice to show us what is artificial about power in our world. Drag also laughs at the power in this world for its ludicrous need to perform power in order to be powerful.”
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Winding down the sermon, Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail parroted tired, woke talking points. She whined, “Y’all tracking with me. Drag also laughs at the power in this world for its ludicrous need to perform power in order to be powerful. And Jesus is doing that. He’s just laughing in the face of the empire. And here’s the thing, this empire is going to kill Jesus because of this parade, because of this laughter, because of this mockery, because of this resisting empire, Jesus is about to die.”
Concluding the sacrilegious rant, she reiterated her argument. The woke preacher said, “We do this day, this Palm Sunday, a disservice. We do Holy Week a disservice when we see this as doomed, when we see that Jesus’s triumphant drag queen entry into Jerusalem is doomed. Yes, he’s going to be killed. That’s real, but he’s also not going to stay dead.”
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