{"id":1959,"asset_id":"2271","title":"Sorry, Not Sorry: Olympics Organizers Have No Shame","alias":"sorry-not-sorry-olympics-organizers-have-no-shame","introtext":"<h3 class=\"header__logo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/public\/img\/ncregister-logo.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"\" style=\"float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\r\n<h3 class=\"article__headline\">Sorry, Not Sorry: Olympics Organizers Have No Shame<\/h3>\r\n<div class=\"article__lead\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: When the Olympic organizers and others on the Left use the term \u2018inclusive,\u2019 they mean prioritizing those who have contempt for Christianity.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img src=\"images\/banners\/paris_2024.jpg\" alt=\"paris 2024\" style=\"float: right;\" hspace=\"10\/\" \/><\/p>\r\n<span class=\"articleMetadata__byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/author\/michael-warsaw\">Michael Warsaw<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"articleMetadata__section\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/section\/publishers-note\">Publisher's Note<\/a> <\/span><time datetime=\"2024-07-31T09:11:13-05:00\" class=\"articleMetadata__info\">July 31, 2024<\/time>\r\n<div class=\"article__text\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The key to \u201capologizing\u201d without really apologizing is to use the word&nbsp;<i>if<\/i>, as in, \u201cIf I\u2019ve offended you, I\u2019m deeply sorry.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of us have first-hand experience with this technique \u2014 on the giving and receiving ends. It has a 100% failure rate. What\u2019s more, it generally makes the offended party feel even more aggrieved.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exhibit A is the statement that Olympics spokesperson Anne Descamps made over the weekend in the wake of worldwide outrage over the blatant mockery of the Last Supper during the Paris Games\u2019 drag queen-themed opening ceremonies on July 26.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cClearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group,\u201d she said, adding, of course, \u201cIf people have taken any offense, we are really sorry.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"inBodyAd marginBottom30\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Translation: We\u2019re only sorry that so many Christians are too backward to grasp the artistic genius of what we\u2019ve done.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are multiple themes present in the Gospel accounts of the Last Supper. One of them is betrayal. Many of us felt precisely that when we watched something so sacred to Christians \u2014 particularly Catholics, because of our belief in and reverence for the Eucharist \u2014 denigrated in a historically Catholic country like France, the erstwhile Eldest Daughter of the Church and the homeland of St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, St. Joan of Arc and the Little Sisters of the Poor.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was something undeniably demonic about what we witnessed. The devil, we know, uses imitation to mock God. We got an unpleasant taste of that when the Los Angeles Dodgers honored the drag-queen \u201cSisters of Perpetual Indulgence\u201d last year. The opening ceremonies multiplied that scandal by a factor of 50.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>How do we respond?&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/commentaries\/olympics-organizers-have-no-shame?utm_campaign=NCR&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_ffHOpnuqI5Myhp1Bku-uDossIOw5GNN3d-5uJgOCp5xtWagp-bAV3D4e4Jt48oEHvvLOXShkA9nByqC9_nZTR-7eIfA&amp;_hsmi=318554669&amp;utm_content=318554669&amp;utm_source=hs_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continue &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","fulltext":"","state":1,"catid":"8","created":"2024-08-05 14:03:48","created_by":"873","created_by_alias":"","modified":"2024-08-05 14:05:14","modified_by":"873","checked_out":"873","checked_out_time":"2024-08-05 14:03:48","publish_up":"2024-08-05 14:03:48","publish_down":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","images":"{\"image_intro\":\"\",\"float_intro\":\"\",\"image_intro_alt\":\"\",\"image_intro_caption\":\"\",\"image_fulltext\":\"\",\"float_fulltext\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_alt\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_caption\":\"\"}","urls":"{\"urla\":false,\"urlatext\":\"\",\"targeta\":\"\",\"urlb\":false,\"urlbtext\":\"\",\"targetb\":\"\",\"urlc\":false,\"urlctext\":\"\",\"targetc\":\"\"}","attribs":"{\"article_layout\":\"\",\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_tags\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"info_block_position\":\"\",\"info_block_show_title\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_parent_category\":\"\",\"link_parent_category\":\"\",\"show_associations\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"link_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_publish_date\":\"\",\"show_item_navigation\":\"\",\"show_icons\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_hits\":\"\",\"show_noauth\":\"\",\"urls_position\":\"\",\"alternative_readmore\":\"\",\"article_page_title\":\"\",\"show_publishing_options\":\"\",\"show_article_options\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_backend\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_frontend\":\"\"}","version":2,"ordering":"0","metakey":"","metadesc":"","access":"1","hits":"1","metadata":"{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"rights\":\"\",\"xreference\":\"\"}","featured":"1","language":"*","xreference":"","note":""}