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Drag performer dressed as the Pope at Northwestern
Campus Reform ^ | 6 Feb 2026 | Francis Kapper

Posted on 02/07/2026 7:15:01 AM PST by Rummyfan

A drag performer dressed as the Pope appeared during Northwestern University’s annual drag show, raising questions about religious sensitivity on campus.

Northwestern’s annual drag show included a performance featuring Catholic imagery, drawing scrutiny over how religious beliefs are treated on campus.

A drag performer dressed as the Pope appeared during Northwestern University’s annual drag show on Feb. 2 at Norris University Center, performing choreography that incorporated Catholic imagery while music played for a student audience.

The event was organized by the Society of Trans and Non-Binary Students and the Rainbow Alliance and promoted as a cultural experience for students, including those under 21, according to promotional materials shared on social media.

Photos and video from the performance show the performer wearing a papal-style outfit while kneeling and gesturing toward audience members during a routine set to George Michael’s “Father Figure.” Organizers described the event as a celebration of drag as an art form and encouraged attendees to view the show as an inclusive campus tradition.

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TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: sowhat

NOW DO MOHAMMED.... hypocrites....

1 posted on 02/07/2026 7:15:01 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah. Why not a drag performer dressed as Muhammad.


2 posted on 02/07/2026 7:18:09 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Rummyfan

He’s lucky the Catholic Church is not what it used to or he would be burned at the stake


3 posted on 02/07/2026 7:20:24 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Steely Tom

They might but they don’t want their heads hacked off by some moozlum.


4 posted on 02/07/2026 7:21:15 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Rummyfan

They mock at their own peril
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2 Peter 3:3-7 NLT

[3] Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires.

[4] They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.”

[5] They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water.

[6] Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood.

[7] And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.


5 posted on 02/07/2026 7:22:57 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: Rummyfan

That’s something else which needs to be slowly, but steadily removed from the list of ‘acceptable performances’ at a public facility. This is more a matter of indoctrination vs lighthearted entertainment. The students will survive without happening on campus.


6 posted on 02/07/2026 7:25:08 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Rummyfan

This pope and the previous one would consider it an honor.


7 posted on 02/07/2026 7:25:30 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Rummyfan

I would think those who consider themselves religious wouldn’t be caught dead at a drag show. The perverts don’t have to answer to us, but they’ll be answering to the most powerful on their judgement day. As we all will.


8 posted on 02/07/2026 7:27:00 AM PST by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: Rummyfan

“A drag performer dressed as the Pope appeared during Northwestern University’s annual drag show on Feb. 2 at Norris University Center”. Boys will be boys.


9 posted on 02/07/2026 7:29:07 AM PST by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthym + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: kawhill

“A drag performer dressed as the Pope


The sad thing is it would probably be an improvement over the real Pope.


10 posted on 02/07/2026 7:30:34 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Rummyfan

Exactly!


11 posted on 02/07/2026 7:32:06 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Rummyfan
They never dress as a Muslim cleric or a Rabbi.
12 posted on 02/07/2026 7:47:36 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: butlerweave

Burned at the Stake !
The Iron Maiden is more to my Liking.


13 posted on 02/07/2026 8:10:40 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Resist Satan's Tyranny )
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To: Rummyfan

This crappy pope probably approves. He loves the pedos and homos.


14 posted on 02/07/2026 8:32:38 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Rummyfan

Disgusting and disrespectful


15 posted on 02/07/2026 8:36:34 AM PST by darkangel82
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To: Rummyfan

They’ll make him a cardinal.


16 posted on 02/07/2026 8:44:28 AM PST by marron
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To: Rummyfan

Mocking one of their own. Leo more likely to seek an audience with this performer to find new truth through dialogue than anything else.


17 posted on 02/07/2026 8:44:33 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
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To: hal ogen

Concerned about getting the Charlie Hebdo treatment, eh?


18 posted on 02/07/2026 8:48:38 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Rummyfan

Not hypocrite... POOOOSIE and COWARD!!! They know that Catholics and Christians won’t do anything, moslems would cut his throat after beating him for a while.


19 posted on 02/07/2026 10:15:15 AM PST by Mastador1
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To: Rummyfan

If administrators knew that a drag performer was going to portray Mohammed, they would probably prohibit it. If it happened without their foreknowledge, they would be full of apologies to the “Muslim community” and the offending student would face serious consequences, i.e., suspension or expulsion.


20 posted on 02/07/2026 10:43:51 AM PST by Steve_Seattle1
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