U Nebraska Investigating Grad Student’s Drag Show ‘Mass’
“Mr. Willette’s final recital performance is very offensive and unacceptable for being permitted at the University of Nebraska”
The LGBT crowd sure does love to mock Christianity. Other religions? Not so much.
The College Fix reports:
University of Nebraska investigates grad student’s drag show ‘Mass’
The University of Nebraska Lincoln is investigating the “Mass of Perpetual Indulgence,” a doctoral thesis by M. Joseph Willette.
In the performance, which he submitted as part of his graduation this May, Willette (pictured) and others performed a drag show that imitated various parts of the Catholic Mass. “Ultimately, this work celebrates the queer body as a holy body, queer community as a sacred communion, and carnal pleasure as a consecrated sacrament,” the musical composition doctoral student wrote. The musical set had portions unique to the Roman Catholic Mass, including a “Kyrie,” “Sanctus,” and “Credo.”
The performance (below), first reported on by The College Fix in May, prompted condemnation from political and religious leaders in the state.
Bishop James Conley, who leads the Diocese of Lincoln, “did meet with University of Nebraska officials, but he won’t be making any further comments until the university concludes its look into the matter,” a staff member told The College Fix.
Bp. Conley called the performance “both disturbing and appalling” and asked the university “to do more than ignore such a vile display of hatred.”
“Have the courage to stand up and declare your institution will not tolerate or reward such inappropriate behavior and take action against the faculty who encouraged it,” Conley wrote in a June statement.
Nebraska state Senator, Dan Lonowski, also criticized the performance and separately confirmed an investigation is under way.
Lonowski and twelve other colleagues sent a letter to the university on June 2, addressing Willette’s performance. It came soon after The Fix’s original report and heavily cited reporting from the original article.
Senator Lonowski shared a copy of the letter to The Fix. The letter stated how the “performance is very upsetting and found inappropriate by Catholics and Christian faiths in general.”
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hatred does have its place at these Universities
in the form of social just/ environmental justice etc classes and degrees
Perpetual Indulgence?
Isn’t there a national drag group known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, whose membership includes Nuclear Dog Boy, and which specializes in pranks like this?
I know a lot of middle schoolers get assigned to write essays about What I Did Last Summer, but I never saw anyone brazenly lazy enough to try to get a thesis out of it.