AN unfortunate attempt by the hosts of the Paris Olympic Games to frame the grand opening of the Games on the banks of the River Seine within a mock representation of Leonardo da Vinci's iconic Renaissance painting of the Lord's Last Supper, using drag queens and other performers to represent the original actors, has turned the world's biggest sports event watched by at least 28.6 million online into an unnecessary controversy.

The Last Supper depicts the last meal taken by Christ with his apostles before he died on the Cross; this was when he instituted the Holy Eucharist by means of which bread and wine become, according to the Christian faith, the body and blood of Christ.