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Opinion: This ruckus is more than a rogue performance of 'Hamilton'.

(CNN)Don't expect Lin-Manuel Miranda's award-winning "Hamilton" to be performed in a conservative church. Hmm. A musical that tells the life of founding father Alexander his Hamilton through hip-hop, R&B, and soul music. But this weekend, a church in McAllen, Texas called The Door put on a show. The actors were reportedly making references to Jesus and Christianity, and the video also shows a sermon being given comparing homosexuality to drug addiction and deeming it a sin. increase.

Jill Filipovic
Jill Filipovic
"He knows exactly what you've been through. '' Pastor Victor Lopez addressed the audience''You've probably been through a broken marriage. , you may be struggling with financial problems or anything God can help you with tonight.He wants to forgive your sins.
Part of this "Hamilton" is fun, but it debuted in 2015 and isn't on the cutting edge of 2022 pop culture trends. for Sunday sermons. A spokesperson for the Broadway production responded in his statement to CNN, "'Hamilton' does not license any stage productions as amateur or professional, nor does it license Door Church." of course. For many of the artists who have written, produced and worked in Hamilton, it has been frustrating and frustrating to see their work used without permission or remuneration and, most appallingly, for homophobic purposes. You must be full of anger.
But this seemingly trivial story -- the Texas church's distortion of a musical that has become a progressive classic -- has been criticized by the American right, especially Christian conservatives. Repeatedly narrating great dynamics rewrite US history to their ends and confirm their prejudices.
Take the ubiquitous historical claim by conservatives that the United States is a Christian (or "Judeo-Christian" as it is now more commonly termed) nation. Some far-right conservatives now go so far as to claim the mantle ofChristian nationalismin fact, the role of religion in society, law and politics is It was discussed and contested around theUnited States. Christianity isnot mentioned in the Constitution. Rather, its founders made it clear that the state should not support other religions in preference to other religions, but that citizens should be free to practice their religion.
It should also be noted that many Southern Christians supported slavery, and that many Baptist ministers called it the "institution of God". people went to war. The Southern Baptist Conventionwas established. Southern Baptist slaveholders wanted to preserve the ability to enslave other humans as long as they were African, a group that viewed them as fundamentally inferior to whites. Abolitionists were also motivated by Christian beliefs, with many African Americansadopting Christianity,and many passages used by proponents of white slavery to justify the institution. reclaimed the biblical message of deliverance as a counter-argument to
Today, many conservatives shroud this history while continuing to push the lie that the Civil War was more about state rights than slavery. Many school textbooks, especially those in the former Confederate States of America, continue to spread this blatantly false propaganda. Republicans continue to defend Confederate monuments as part of U.S. history, but these monuments date back long after the Civil War to a slave-holding South and war to protect it. It was built specifically to retroactively glorify the Confederate traitors who went...and the Confederate flag was a staple of former President Donald Trump's rallies, the flag simply saying " "It represents the South," and "when people proudly carry the Confederate flag, they aren't. We are talking about racism."
This whitewashing probably It is most felt in public schools. Oklahoma Republicans recently voteda billbanning educators from teaching students that certain racial groups were "victims" of slavery,historically accurate slaves. tried to ban the teachings of slavery.The truth, of course, is that in the United States, certain racial groups were victims of slavery. Africans brought to be enslaved by white slave owners. Other states prohibit the discussion of racism as a system, making it very difficult to teach about slavery.

These false narratives about the founding and the realities of slavery have been widely adopted and disseminated by Republicans, Christian conservatives, and the American right. It continues to encourage extremism. Not to mention historically ignorant yet producing an ideologically astute mass.

It is difficult to organize a nation that disagrees with the basic facts of its own history. These efforts to do so are far-reaching, ranging from top government officials to children's classrooms and public parksand these propaganda campaigns can also be found in churches. Including a weekend in McAllen, Texas.

For those of us who aren't the creators or actors of "Hamilton," putting on a show without permission is a really small thing. But when that performance is used as another mechanism of propaganda rather than education, injecting a biased ideology into an opposing work of art, it's not just a small thing, it's the epitome of something much bigger. An ongoing tragedy with potentially disastrous consequences.