Why Christians Need To Be A Lot Less Welcoming And Tolerant

As you may or may not have heard, something called the Dove Awards were held here in Nashville this week. Broadcast on TBN, the Dove Awards are an annual awards show, held by the Gospel Music Association, designed to celebrate and recognize achievements in Christian music. Except this year, the headlines around the event had nothing to do with Christian music, or Christianity in general. Instead the attention went to a man named Derek Webb, who gained prominence in the Christian music space as the longtime lead singer of a popular Christian rock band. Several years ago, Webb had an affair, left his wife, and then became an apostate. He’s now re-married to the lead singer of another Christian rock band, while he continues to put out albums with titles like “The Jesus Hypothesis,” which should give you a good idea of where he stands.

But this year, after winning several Dove awards in the past, Webb decided to attend the ceremony dressed in drag, alongside his drag queen friend who goes by the stage name “Flamy Grant.” You may recall that we talked about Flamy Grant a few months ago when one of his “Christian” songs briefly made it to the top of the Christian song charts. Webb and Grant have made music together in the past, including a song called “Boys Will Be Girls.” And they put those lyrics into practice, or tried, this week at the Dove Awards. Webb tweeted out a picture of himself dressed in his drag outfit, along with the caption “54th annual dove awards, here we come.” As you can see, Flamy Grant, is dressed in the customary Drag Queen uniform that makes him look like a character from a 90’s Tim Burton film, while Webb looks like he’s playing dress up with clothes he found in the clearance bin of the women’s section at Goodwill.  They both look utterly ridiculous and aggressively hideous.