Skillet frontman and bassist John Cooper stated he is “literally speechless” after numerous Christian artists wentto the 54th Dove Awards while dressed up in drag.
Per The Roy’s Report, Former Caedmon’s Call singer-songwriter Derek Webb participatedin the awards event in Nashville, Tennessee, with freely queer Christian artist Semler and drag queen Flamy Grant.
“54th yearly dove awards, here we come,” Webb tweeted, with a image of the trio.
Cooper, who hosts the Cooper Stuff podcast, informed Church Leaders, “Obviously, they’re simply attempting to get attention, they’re attempting to interrupt, and they’re going about it in a creative method,
He included, “And the reality is they are being the assailants in this.”
Cooper likewise shared that artists like them would not participatein a “Muslim music event to do the verysame” since that would be “a little bit too insensitive. You puton’t desire to go in and simply start stomping on someone’s faith. The laws of intersectionality would use.”
He competed that the Christian music market must be conscious that Webb and the others act as assailants in light of their current actions. The Skillet artist likewise thinks that “the market has set the foundation to make individuals feel like they can bully us since we are so wimpy and weak,” explaining the problem as an “absurdity” because it makes Christians “apologetic about what we think.”
In action to the Dove Awards debate, Weeb protected his option of clothing in a video posted to X, previously Twitter.
“As a cis, straight, white guy, I walk into a space like that and any space