A drag show hosted at a Dallas church sparked backlash after it featured a performer with a history of making threatening “jokes.”
With all of the violence thrown at President Donald Trump during his race for a second term, threats against him and his supporters aren’t likely to be taken well. This is a lesson that is being learned by the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, who hosted an event called “Celebrating the Art of Drag.” This was marketed as an “act of defiance and in response to the numerous bills introduced into the Texas Legislature attacking drag performers and transgender people.”
While hosting such a gathering in a Texas church is already cause for raised eyebrows, this particular drag show featured Rev. Brooke Dooley who also goes by “Drag King” Brock Bottom.
Watch:
“Drag King” preacher in Dallas, Tx. pic.twitter.com/CmADOliqfI
— Texas Family Project (@FamilyProjectTX) February 16, 2025
The Texas Family Project posted a video on X that shows “Brock Bottom” joking about sacrificing Trump supporters.
Dallas “church” sponsored drag show following a “drag king’s” sermon.
They threatened Trump supporters and even @GregAbbott_TX. What is going on in Texas? pic.twitter.com/zVPCdOBUvh
— Texas Family Project (@FamilyProjectTX) February 16, 2025
“If any of y’all voted for Trump, please don’t tell us. Or do and… do y’all sacrifice? Could we start?”
Later he asked if an audience member had “voted for Trump,” following up by saying “Okay, ’cause I will kill [the audience member].”
According to the church’s website, they are big fans of drag events.
“We understand that gender and gender identity has been highlighted in recent weeks. We understand that there is a difference between drag as an art form and transgender as an identity. However, these are often conflated and politicized, often determined as ‘sin’ by some in Christianity. Our aim is to lift up these communities as a part of the LGBTQ+ community and their impact on our movement,” the site reads.
“Drag as an art form and method of self-expression has been around for centuries. The term was coined during the era of Shakespeare when men would dress up to play women’s roles in the theater,” it continues. “Drag is the primary queer performance form – it is of the queer community, by the queer community and for the queer community. However, because of its emphasis on self-worth, self-expression, social commentary, and community care there has always been a large audience for drag both inside the gay community and outside the queer community.”
X users reacted:
All the Christians and pastors who have sat by and let Satan take control of the United States this past century are responsible for this.
— Deeps (@IBringTheDeeps) February 17, 2025
If you’re inviting drag queens to preach about human sacrifice and harming the disabled then you aren’t a church.
You’re worshipping something, but it isn’t God.
— Anthony Galli (@RallyWithGalli) February 17, 2025
“church” besmirching the Church. Is this being funded by leftist groups as an angle of erosion against Christianity in the U.S.?
— FauxFloridaMan (@FauxFloridaMan) February 17, 2025
Ah the Left showing their true colours of mocking disabled people and threatening to kill people
— Alan You’re Right (@AlanYoureRight) February 17, 2025
Evil people worship evil stuff
— Aga (@LegDayReps) February 17, 2025
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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