Florida tried to shut down this Christmas drag show. It sold out the entire venue. The state attorney general called the show a mockery of Christianity. The ticket sales tell another story.
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Florida tried to shut down this Christmas drag show. It sold out the entire venue. The state attorney general called the show a mockery of Christianity. The ticket sales tell another story.
Source: southpawFA
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Christians make a mockery of Christianity all on their own, so…
>Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier spent two months trying to shut down a Pensacola production of *A Drag Queen Christmas*, a holiday-themed show featuring former competitors from *RuPaul’s Drag Race*. Uthmeier [called the show](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/gop-official-rages-at-demonic-christmas-drag-show-because-kids-might-be-near-the-building-its-in/) “demonic,” “anti-Christian,” and “harmful” to children — instead, the December 23 show sold out its 1,600-seat venue.
>Hundreds of people showed up at city council meetings over the last two months to speak out in support of the show, [WEAR-TV reported](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0g9LF2pC_8). Some of these speakers, who were also members of the local gay men’s chorus, showed up outside the Tuesday night performance to sing carols to ticketholders waiting in line.
>“We can’t thank Pensacola enough for showing out and showing up,” tour host Nina West [said in a video](https://x.com/TootCrave/status/2002832749569425642) alongside her other performers. The Florida performance marked the touring show’s 21st state in a 23-state run that goes through December 29.
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Awesome. I love seeing it. Reminder to everyone: your kid is more likely to be SA at church than at a drag show. Drag shows are awesome, and they teach everyone to accept others and to love being yourself. The fact that Christian nationalists find that a detestation really speaks volumes as to what kind of hate group they are.
“I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all men, should quarrel with such rancorous animosity, and display daily towards one another such bitter hatred, that this, rather than the virtues they claim, is the readiest criterion of their faith.”
– Baruch Spinoza Theologico-Political Treatise 1670
God bless the First Amendment.
Pretty sure Jesus would be in the front row.
Even though it doesn’t mock Christianity, there’s nothing wrong with doing that.
>Christian counterprotestors also demonstrated outside of the venue. A woman held a sign that said, “You need to repent.” Her bearded and bespectacled male associate wore a white shirt with letters in the colors of the rainbow and transgender Pride flags. It said, “They burned in their lust… committing what is shameful,” a paraphrased Bible verse.
>“If you sinners don’t get right with the living God, God is going to put you in hell,” the man said, using a microphone and loudspeaker in front of the venue.
>Pastor Kent Langham with The Cross Church said that the show was publicly blaspheming Jesus, “the lord of every human being.” He called the show a “mockery” of the Christian faith that celebrates “homosexuality [and] transgenderism.”
>“The Bible calls those abominations very clearly, and God judges societies that accept those,” Langham added.
Strangely, if Jesus came down in his robe today, Christian nationalists would be calling him an abomination. They’d also call him a socialist commie from Palestine, and they’d demand he be deported.
There’s no Christ in Christian nationalism.
Trump and his best friend of 10 years, Jeffrey Epstein, raped impoverished underaged girls and made a mockery of Christianity.
MAGA and Republican evangelicals are a mockery of Christianity.
Are you not allowed to mock religion in the United States of America?
It’s impossible to be a Republican and a good Christian. They’re some kind of rotten version that attracts vile people
Fucking Attorney General has Zero business in telling folks about Christianity. Fuck MAGA
Why does Florida hate freedom?
Florida seems to abhor our bill of rights. That are not new. They’re over 200 years old. Why does a state within the union continue to abhor the people’s rights? I blame pudding fingers Ron desantis. Cuz he doesn’t like the freedoms, the constitutionally protected speech that regular everyday Americans do enjoy. If you don’t enrich and protect our freedoms, you should GTFO.
why is the state attorney general commenting on the religious feelings about a private venue? maybe he should work harder at keeping his personal and professional life separate.
Years ago I was in south beach on a random weeknight. Was just kind of walking around taking it all in (first time ever in Florida in general)
Came across a bar that had a drag show and it was some of the SASSY people I’ve ever met. I had a fucking blast.
Highly recommend anyone go see one for yourself.
Hey… Fake Ignorant Christians… Not everything is about you. If you don’t like it, don’t go.
Many of these politicians are an even bigger mockery of Christianity then whatever he’s claiming here.
Ohhh a mockery of Christianity…that makes me go even more!
The only mockery of Christianity occurring here is using the name of Christ as a tool of oppression.
If those people saying drag queens and basically everyone who isn’t like them, are going to hell.
I’m going to hell. Fuck that!
I don’t wanna be anywhere near those crazies in the afterlife.
All religions have to endure mockery. Christianity is not special.
Mockery is a first amendment right.
“Wahhh!! I’m being persecuted because I don’t like this thing”
If you never get offended are you living in a free country?
No, you see, I am going *because* he thinks its a mockery of Christianity.
It’s not a mockery of Christianity, it just isn’t for you. Go have your Christianity! Leave us to our own pursuits!
Still hung up on banning drag shows because they hate freedom and want to make something that shouldn’t be an issue one as a means of hoping you forget Republicans don’t want you to have reasonable first world things like affordable healthcare or safe schools or decent wage
The Christian Taliban must ban everything they’re offended by.
Last I checked it was perfectly legal to mock religion by free speech.
Hamburger Marys?
As long as I am under no obligation to go to your church, you are under no obligation to attend my* drag show.
* *I’m not a drag performer and don’t find it interesting, but a lot of people are and do — why should I care unless I’m compelled to be there?*
Whiney, bitchy Christians. Go back to your middle-east wasteland.
Doesn’t the first amendment allow for mockery?
Those people who died at the Pulse nightclub didn’t die in vain.
Thank you, Florida. Keep showing up.
There was no mockery of Christianity. There was no nudity, the songs were common songs some from “wicked”
The Bitching groups were all Christians/ churches/ Baptists who would not go anyway. The Police had to spend extra money to protect the venue from protestors and in the news the complainers complained about having to spend tax money to protect the venue for themselves.
https://weartv.com/news/local/a-drag-queen-christmas-show-goes-on-amid-protests-at-pensacolas-saenger-theater
The comment section is terrible.
Such victims, the Chrissers
The local evangelical tax shelter with acrobats flying across the room on animatronic camels isn’t a mockery of Christianity.
I’m a straight white male in my 40s and my wife takes me to drag shows all the time. They’re usually tons of fun, the best I ever went to was something called Boylesque at the Triple Door in Seattle, I think it was the 2019 show. That shit was top tier, I don’t think I’ve laughed at an actual comedy show that much, let alone a dance routine. Yes it counts since several of the performers were in drag.
The people who hate these things are repressed fun haters who hate it when other people are having a good time.
It’s about fun…forgetting things and just enjoying the moment…its about being together…seems there are some that have lost their ability to enjoy anything and all they see is bad…
If christianity can’t hold up under scrutiny then christianity isn’t worth believing in the first place.
State Attorney General needs another read of the First Amendment and a reminder that this isn’t a Christian nation – mockeries of Christianity are entirely legal.
Someone should do a drag show about these clown public figures.
I went to that show last year. It was really funny. It’s quite racy, as you can expect, and entertaining. I highly recommend checking it out next year
Christianity is a mockery of itself
Even if it’s explicitly against any religion, that’s what freedom of speech means
Americans are free to mock Christianity like every other religion. So what’s the problem?
All religions should be mocked.
Christianity *is* a mockery.
Is it as bad as celebrating a holiday of a “suspected” pagan origin in the name of a faith that disavows it directly as much as it detests idolatry and ~~consumerism~~.