IN the uproar over what Christians denounced as blasphemy in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 27, there were many calls for vehement condemnation of the performance of drag artists at a table reprising Leonardo da Vinci's painting of Jesus Christ's Last Supper with His Apostles before His sacrificial Passion and Death.

Righteous indignation among the faithful may further intensify, with Olympic officials and artists denying that the controversial drag tableau was about the event that instituted the greatest Sacrament in the Catholic Church: the Holy Eucharist. It's been claimed that the act referenced an ancient Greek feast or a Dutch painting.