“Christian” Drag Queen “Flamy Grant’s” Album Tops The Christian Music Charts At No. 1

Blake’s meteoric rise to fame happened largely in part because of the controversial nature surrounding Blake being a self-proclaimed drag artist.

The controversy began when Christian artist Dereck Webb partnered with Blake in a song titled “Boys Will Be Girls,” according to Pride Source, that features Webb transforming into a drag queen as the song progresses as Blake helps apply the makeup and sing in the song.

Some of the lyrics of the song say,

I heard Jesus loved and spent his life with those who were abandoned by proud and fearful men. So if a church won’t celebrate and love you, they’re believing lies that can’t save you or them.

Other songs by Flamy Grant include “Good Day,” described as “an uplifting anthem for anyone who has felt excluded by the church,” adding that “Evangelicals do not own God. They don’t have the keys to heaven. And you don’t have to play by their rules to be Christian.” The song is apart of the album Bible Belt Baby which was released last year.

However, the album finally reached the limelight after worship leader Sean Feucht, who boasts that he is a “MAGA-preacher,” picked up on this album and blasted Grant on X.

If you’re wondering the end goal of the deconstruction movement in the church, then look no further than former worship leader Derek Webb’s new collab with a drag queen. These truly are the last days.

He wrote

https://twitter.com/FlamyGrant/status/1684326236947091456?s=20

After a little back and forth, Grant seized the opportunity to promote his music in the Christian sphere. “Sean Feucht thinks hardly anyone is interested in a drag queen. Good Day deserves a spot on the #christianmusic charts, dontcha think?,” Grant said.

‘Grant’s full album, “Bible Belt Baby,” however, has been number one on the iTunes Christian album chart for more than a week,’ Pride Source wrote on August 4th.

Grant reveled in this in an interview with Billboard.

It’s been very, very cool. If there’s one thing that every drag performer has in common, it’s that we know how to capitalize on a moment.

It’s wild because the album is 10 months old. I’m still in that touring phase, but this certainly brought it up to a level I did not anticipate 10 months into the release of this.

Blake told Billboard over Zoom as he smirked

Billboard noted that after Grant to took to social media promoting her song, ‘“Good Day” briefly hit No. 1 on iTunes’ Christian Songs charts, and her album Bible Belt Baby reached No. 1 on their Christian Albums chart — where it stayed for seven straight days, until falling to No. 2 on Aug. 3 to Lauren Daigle’s Look Up Child.’

According to Flamy he says that Amy Grant is aware of him and likes the drag queen’s work.

I know Amy Grant knows about me. Some people who were in her orbit have talked to me and said, ‘Amy thinks it’s great.’ I am hopeful that there will be some kind of collaboration someday.

Flamy gleefully said

Grant said he grew up listening to CCM but that they don’t recognize the genre compared to today.

That’s the thing about Christian music — it was never defined by any actual genre. It was a rubber stamp saying, ‘Your kids will be safe listening to this.’ Now, a lot of Christian music feels like an assembly line of trite, overused clichés about how, ‘I’m gonna sing to God about how good God is.’

I chose Christian music because it matters to me. The reason I’m here is because I know there are queer kids still growing up listening to this. I want them to see the options available to them. I don’t want them to have to go through what I did, which was to conform, or get kicked out.

Grant added

Moreover, in an interview with NBC’s Today, Grant reaffirmed how grateful he is.

This is a huge moment for the 16-year-old version of myself who was writing songs, hoping to be on the same stages that Amy Grant was playing as I was growing up. It’s massive and wonderful, and I’m so grateful.

I watched people get kicked out of my community for breaking those rules, and it’s scary because they tell you that there’s nothing good waiting for you on the other side. The whole world is cast as this deviant, scary, bad place. So it means everything to me to be able to have a little bit of presence on the Christian charts in Christian music space.

One woman just messaged me today and was like, ‘My soul has been craving an opportunity to venture back into spiritual community, and I just haven’t known how to do it because I just believed that the church wasn’t for me anymore … This has changed that for me, and it’s given me the courage to explore queer-affirming churches.’

People want to tell you, ‘You can’t do that,'” Grant says. “‘You can’t do drag in church. You can’t do drag, period.’ I’m like: ‘But I can.’

Furthermore, Grant also shared his excitement and glee when blowing up in a statement to Entertainment Weekly.

I’m standing in the sanctuary painted for the gods (or God, if you’re monotheistic!) because queer people belong there — we have always been there and we always will be.

Evangelicals like to think they own the religion and get to decide who is in or out, creating an endless cycle of trauma for the queer kids they keep making and raising in those oppressive spaces.

I’m here in all of my draggy audacity to demand they reckon with reality: they have a terrible theology when it comes to queerness that hurts people rather than helping them connect with the divine.

I’m going to do my damndest to make sure the queer folks you’ve forced into the closet see themselves represented in the church. We hear it all the time: representation matters. That is just as true on hallowed ground as it is in Hollywood or anywhere else.

I don’t want to be associated with that! We’re seeing vast numbers of people leave the church, and studies point to its stance on LGBTQ issues as the number one reason for the mass exodus. I think leaving is actually probably the best decision for most people. I support that, I champion that. Get out, girl. Find a place where you are wholly celebrated and loved for who you are.

The problem is there will always be more queer kids coming up in church. Who is going to show them a hopeful future?

He said

Again, Flamy said that he wishes to finally meet Amy Grant one day.

I hope to meet her one day and thank her for being a rare bright spot and source of grape, grape joy (that’s for the real Amy fans) for a closeted queer kid who just wanted to dance in the House of Love.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[28] They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. [29] Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5:28-29

Add this to the plethora of reasons why God is going to utterly destroy this nation. And it’s not like I’m siding with MAGA-idolator Feucht here: wickedness is wickedness, there is no other way to slice it. This Feucht-Grant fight is just a neo-pharisee arguing with a neo-sadducee (Acts 23:1-11).

The CCM scene is the biggest joke ever. It is compromised of the fakest, charlatans out there; many of whom do not even make a measly profession of faith and are ashamed to call themselves a “Christian artist,” Lauren Daigle being a shining example of that. Both camps here are in the wrong, both fake, both are frauds; as asserted in these scriptures, using the world’s ways to entertain, beguile, and bewitch the simple:

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Luke 6:26,16:15; Romans 3:8; James 4:4

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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