SBC Megachurch Liturgy Includes Beyonce Cover Song About Queens and….Doms?
Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, is the embodiment of instituting worldly entertainment in the pathetic hope of catching the attention of wayward goatlings and luring them into staying. During their New Year’s Eve service, the 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch led by David Hughes continues its celebration of all things fleshly with a Beyonce cover (who herself frequently dresses like a whore in order to entice the flesh) that has become an anthem for the Black LGBTQ community.
Known for their extravagant attempts to keep their members entertained, in the past few months alone, they played a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way in church, performed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration, put on a Willy Wonka Christmas worship service’ and put on crazy ‘Baby Shark’ mashup during service, replete with smoke and canons!
In fact, almost all services include a secular music cover right after the worship and before the sermon, so much that it’s become part of their liturgy. In this case, Beyonce’s “Break My Soul” which includes the lyrics:
I’ma let down my hair ’cause I lost my mind
Bey is back and I’m sleepin’ real good at night
The queens in the front and the Doms in the back
Ain’t takin’ no flicks but the whole clique snapped
There’s a whole lot of people in the house
Tryin’ to smoke with the yak in your mouth
According to Genius, which seeks to explain unclear song lyrics:
Beyoncé is likely referencing the queer Black origins of house music, a genre she pulls from heavily on “BREAK MY SOUL” with its four to the floor beat and use of drum machines and synthesisers.
The most popularly accepted origin of the term “house music” stems from the Chicago nightclub The Warehouse…. While The Warehouse originally started as a members only club for gay Black men, it eventually found diverse audiences from all over Chicago, driving its popularity up until its closure in 1983.
They continue:
“Queens” could refer to drag queens: primarily gay men and transgender women who take on oftentimes exaggerated female personas as a performance of gender. A “house” is a found family of queens who might compete against other houses in ballroom and pageant competitions
…while “Doms” likely means bottles of Dom Perignon, a luxury vintage champagne brand, the word “doms” can also have a queer context, referring to “dominants” in BDSM subcultures who take on a more controlling (and stereotypically, but not necessarily, masculine) position in a relationship.
BDSM has a long history with queer culture; “doms in the back” could be Beyoncé’s way of including all facets of queerness in her music, but making sure the feminine origins of house music’s queens are at the forefront.
This is what Hughes wins them with, and what he keeps them with.
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When your church has to be worldly to attract the unsaved, you really need to find another church.
Sickening and vile to call that place a church. It should be called:
A Den of Devils
The Satan Pit
Beelzebub’s Gathering House
I sincerely pray the scales fall from the eyes of these attendees and they truly come to a right understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
It’s no more than a Disney extension park that occasionally uses the word ‘Jesus’
Church? Do you mean the synagogue of satan
I couldn’t understand a word of those lyrics, thanks for the explanations!