A San Francisco congregation welcomed a drag performer to its pulpit this past Sunday, according to reporting by the Christian commentary site Protestia, which described the service as a celebration of the city's leather subculture.

The guest preacher was Honey Davenport, a drag performer best known for appearing on season 11 of the television competition "RuPaul's Drag Race," whom Protestia identified as the recent winner of the 2026 International Mr. Leather competition. The report states that Davenport appeared at Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco (MCC San Francisco) as the Sunday guest preacher.

According to the report, the sanctuary was decorated with leather pride flags "in solidarity and allyship" with what it described as a subculture centered on leather apparel, kink, and sadomasochistic practice. Davenport, the report says, preached from Matthew 21:23-32 and spoke on the theme of "found community" -- celebrating belonging within the leather, queer, and sex-worker communities.

Metropolitan Community Churches is a denomination founded in 1968 that describes itself as welcoming and affirming of LGBTQ people. MCC San Francisco is one of its member congregations. GLM Omnimedia News could not independently confirm the details of the service from the church's own public channels at the time of publication.

The episode is the latest in a growing number of instances in which some American churches have embraced cultural expressions around sexuality that historic Christianity has regarded as contrary to Scripture. Churches in the affirming movement routinely point to themes of inclusion and community, while biblical believers hold that the church's welcome must be joined to the Bible's call to repentance and holiness.

Jesus Himself preached the text reportedly used on Sunday, Matthew 21, to religious leaders who rejected Him -- not as an endorsement of every way of life, but as a summons to repent and enter the kingdom. The tax collectors and sinners He welcomed were those who turned from their sins, like Zacchaeus, who climbed down from the tree promising to repay all he had stolen.

The church's task has always been both doors: wide open to sinners, and firmly closed to sin. A pulpit that only opens doors and never closes them is not preaching the whole counsel of God.