{"id":1987364,"date":"2023-07-31T21:31:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T01:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drag-queen-flamy-grant-tops-itunes-christian-music-charts-after-twisted-social-media-stunt\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T21:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T01:34:03","slug":"drag-queen-flamy-grant-tops-itunes-christian-music-charts-after-twisted-social-media-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drag-queen-flamy-grant-tops-itunes-christian-music-charts-after-twisted-social-media-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Drag Queen Flamy Grant dominates iTunes Christian Music Charts following controversial social media stunt."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdrag-queen-flamy-grant-tops-itunes-christian-music-charts-after-twisted-social-media-stunt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1987364&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Is Contemporary Christian Music Losing Its Way?<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s been a lot of talk \u200din\u2062 recent \u200cdays of how \u200btraditional institutions like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feud-escalates-between-country-legend-and-rude-reporter-ends-in-10k-anti-biden-bet\/\" title=\"Feud Escalates Between Country Legend and Rude Reporter, Ends in K Anti-Biden Bet\">country music<\/a>, NASCAR, and even a\u2062 popular \u200dbeer\u200d brand \u2063have created divided loyalties regarding \u201cwoke\u201d leftist ideas and the extremes of diversity, inclusion, and equality.<\/p>\n<p>That said, has \u200banybody been paying attention to what\u2019s happening in contemporary Christian music?<\/p>\n<p>Or should we say \u201cChristian\u201d music?<\/p>\n<p>Sean Feucht, a Christian musician, author, and founder of a political organization aimed \u200cat\u2064 getting millennials politically active to preserve traditional Christian \u2064values, put out an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pro-lgbt-org-hijacks-gop-program-open-queer-school-one-uss-largest-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LGBT<\/a>-critical tweet on X, previously known as Twitter, that\u2063 caused a\u2063 strong reaction.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062reaction was so intense that \u200cit pushed an \u2064allegedly Christian drag singer \u2063to the\u200b top spot on iTunes Christian music chart.<\/p>\n<p>Say what?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s\u200b what happened. Feucht tweeted criticism of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-christian-denomination-explore-worshiping-god-gender-neutral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contemporary\u200c Christian music<\/a> (CCM) artist, Derrick \u2064Webb, \u200cjoining in concert with drag performer Flamy Grant.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you\u2019re wondering the end goal of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-problem-with-deconstructing-ones-faith\/\" title=\"The Problem With \u2018Deconstructing\u2019 One\u2019s Faith\">deconstruction movement<\/a> in the\u2063 church, then look no\u200b further than former worship leader <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekwebb?\">@derekwebb<\/a>\u2018s new collab with\u200c a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesota-teacher-praises-transgender-activist-sex-worker-in-front-of-middle-schoolers\/\" title=\"Minnesota Teacher Praises Transgender Activist, Sex Worker In Front Of Middle Schoolers\">drag queen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These are truly the\u2063 last days. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sgvzGFoRgu\">https:\/\/t.co\/sgvzGFoRgu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanfeucht\/status\/1684319615797657600?\">July\u2064 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So Flamy decided to flame Feucht.<\/p>\n<p>Grant \u2014 whose real name is Matthew Blake \u2014\u200b tweeted: \u201cOK. I\u2019m gonna do it. Sean Feucht thinks \u2018hardly anyone\u2019 is interested in a\u2063 worship song by\u200b a drag queen. How about we try to get my song \u2018Good Day\u2019 to chart on Christian iTunes?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ok I\u2019m gonna do it. Sean Feucht thinks \u201chardly anyone\u201d is interested in a worship song by\u2062 a drag queen. How about we try to get my song Good Day to chart on Christian iTunes?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s2lt40BEP4\">https:\/\/t.co\/s2lt40BEP4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Flamy Grant (@FlamyGrant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlamyGrant\/status\/1684413845828419586?\">July 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Within a day, Blake\u2019s song had topped the Christian chart\u2063 and\u200d he tweeted: \u201cIf\u2062 you\u2019re gonna \u200dcome for a drag queen, you better \u2062be ready for how she comes back. \u2064She \u2064comes \u200cback with an army of\u200b love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank\u200d you for showing @seanfeucht and conservatives everywhere \u200dthat you are, in \u2063fact,\u200c interested in a Christian drag queen\u2019s music #number1.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you\u2019re\u200c gonna come for a\u2062 drag queen, you better be ready for how\u200d she\u200b comes back.<\/p>\n<p>She comes back\u2063 with an army of love.<\/p>\n<p>Thank \u200byou for showing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanfeucht?\">@seanfeucht<\/a> and conservatives everywhere that you are, in fact, interested in a Christian\u200c drag queen\u2019s music. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/number1?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#number1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lrOicrk1Cl\">pic.twitter.com\/lrOicrk1Cl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Flamy Grant (@FlamyGrant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlamyGrant\/status\/1684727642535391232?\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And Blake\u2019s\u200b album \u201cBible Belt Baby\u201d also went to the top of\u2063 the iTunes Christian chart.<\/p>\n<p>But \u200dwere traditional,\u2064 devout Christians like \u200cFeucht favoring the songs and pushing them to the No.\u200d 1 positions? Unlikely.\u200c For instance, one tweet supporting Blake\u2019s Flamy Grant music came from LGBTQ Nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cIf you\u2019re gonna come for a drag queen, you\u200b better be ready for\u200d how she comes back.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlamyGrant?\">@flamygrant<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekwebb?\">@derekwebb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LGBTQ?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LGBTQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/skJMSuDeOf\">https:\/\/t.co\/skJMSuDeOf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LGBTQ Nation\u2062 (@lgbtqnation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lgbtqnation\/status\/1685987428497059840?\">July 31, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And Webb,\u2062 former lead singer of the \u20631990s CCM group Caedmon\u2019s Call, and who told leftist religious\u200b publication Sojourners that he no longer identifies as a Christian, also tweeted his support, saying \u201cMaybe black sheep are \u200cnot lost. Oh, they\u2019re just pioneers.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">maybe black sheep\u200d are not lost<br \/>\noh,\u200d they\u2019re just pioneers<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IaYaqnqc3X\">https:\/\/t.co\/IaYaqnqc3X<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NDmVAqQpnm\">pic.twitter.com\/NDmVAqQpnm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Derek Webb (@derekwebb) \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekwebb\/status\/1685335034457120769?\">July 29,\u2062 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Feucht is correct in pointing out this nonsense is a deconstruction movement designed to undermine the effectiveness of the church. And it brings to mind the atmosphere of the\u2062 last days.<\/p>\n<p>An ongoing concept promoted\u2064 by LGBT individuals is\u2064 that of love, as in to love them means \u200dyou\u200d must embrace their perversions.<\/p>\n<p>They \u200bcan use as many Christian catchphrases and concepts as they like, but the reality for a \u2064true Christian response \u2062to them is contained \u2064in\u200b I John 5:2\u2062 \u2014 \u201cBy this we know that we love the children of\u2064 God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We can \u2063extend\u2063 our love to these individuals, but not as \u200bfellow believers. Extending Christian fellowship and affirmation \u200dto them would\u200d place us with them in violation of God\u2019s commandments.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, our only \u200bresponse is to \u2064speak to them \u200cof repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 20:21) and be willing, if needed, \u2062to rescue them from a house fire or provide needed\u2064 food or some such thing.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, they, claiming Christ or not, through their actions, warrant our rebuke and adamant opposition to\u200d all aspects of their sinful behavior. \u200bChristian drag queen, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/drag-queen-flamy-grant-tops-itunes-christian-music-charts-twisted-social-media-stunt\/\">Drag Queen Flamy\u2064 Grant Tops iTunes Christian \u200bMusic Charts \u200cAfter Twisted Social Media Stunt<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we also question the impact of woke leftist ideas on contemporary Christian music? As discussions focus on divisions caused by traditional institutions, such as country music and NASCAR, it is crucial to acknowledge the potential influence on the genre that often goes unnoticed. Are we neglecting this aspect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":1987365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}