The Paris Olympics opening ceremony was a “disgusting” attack on humanity’s sacred values and requires a call to Pope Francis “at the first opportunity” to discuss the offence caused to Christians and the imposition of the “LGBT lobby”, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan spoke out on July 30 after some Christian groups and conservative politicians described how they were angered by a kitsch scene of the opening ceremony that seemed to parody Leonardo da Vinci’s famous “Last Supper” painting of Jesus Christ and his disciples—although art experts later said the tableau, featuring drag queens, was in fact based on a painting of the Greek Olympian gods at a pagan feast, with the god of wine and ecstasy Dionysus arriving at the table.