{"id":23998,"date":"2023-03-10T19:05:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T03:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=23998"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:05:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T03:05:29","slug":"woke-christianity-historic-london-church-to-host-drag-queen-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/woke-christianity-historic-london-church-to-host-drag-queen-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke Christianity: Historic London Church to Host Drag Queen Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A historic Anglican Church in the heart of London will for the first time put on a drag queen performance featuring former RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK contestants to \u201ccelebrate artistry and ingenuity in every walk of life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 17th-century St James\u2019s Church, Piccadilly in London, which claims to have demonstrated a \u201cpioneering welcome of LGBTQAI+ communities and other marginalised people and groups\u201d, will for the first time in its 340-year history put on a \u201cdrag night\u201d dubbed PREACH! within the church.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of England parish church said that it would be hosting at least two performances of PREACH! \u2014 with one on Saturday, March 4th, and the second on June 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>The show on Saturday was set to feature drag performers River Medway and Veronica Green, both of whom have appeared as contestants on the RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK television programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSt James\u2019s will welcome drag icons from around the world to perform beneath its ornate gold ceiling, showcasing some of the biggest names in the art of drag, as well as fresh talent,\u201d the church said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claiming that it is \u201ccommitted to the safeguarding of children, young people and adults\u201d St James\u2019s did not say the drag show age-restricted, indicating that children would be allowed into the show.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2023\/03\/05\/preach-historic-anglican-church-in-london-to-host-drag-queen-performance\/\">www.breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historic Anglican Church in the heart of London will for the first time put on a drag queen performance featuring former RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK contestants to \u201ccelebrate artistry and ingenuity in every walk of life\u201d. The 17th-century St James\u2019s Church, Piccadilly in London, which claims to have demonstrated a \u201cpioneering welcome of LGBTQAI+ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/woke-christianity-historic-london-church-to-host-drag-queen-performance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woke Christianity: Historic London Church to Host Drag Queen Performance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warning","category-white-horse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6f4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23999,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998\/revisions\/23999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}