A social media video has gone viral in which an elderly man walks off stage, refusing to participate in a dance with a drag queen while saying that he’s a “man of God.” The video comes from the media company Participant. It was released in November of 2019. For the video, the show’s producers paired three elderly men with three drag queens, telling neither group beforehand that they would be challenged to choreograph a dance routine to a Britney Spears pop song. The clip quickly went viral on Twitter, having over 3 and a half million views as of the time this article was written.

As you can see in the video, one of the drag queens walks up to one of the elderly men and says, “Why don’t we just pair up.” The elderly man involved, Isaac, said, “I’m not into touching, ok? No touching.” The drag queen then said, as they began practicing the dance routine, “Let’s look at the gentlemen. Gentlemen, you guys can acknowledge us. Ooh, who is this?” Isaac had had enough. Interrupting the thing and walking off of the stage, he said, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I can’t do this. I’m a man of God, I can’t do this.”

Speaking about why he refused to participate in the dance event off-stage, he said, “You know I love those people, I pray for them, I would never do anything to hurt them or condemn them. But men are not supposed to dress like women. I’m not going to go along with that! It’s time to stand up and be a man of God.”

“Based Christian Grandpa,” said one Twitter user who commented on the video. Another person who commented said that he did nothing wrong, saying, “He said, ‘I love those people, I pray for them. I would never hurt em or condemn them, but men aren’t supposed to dress like women’ and said sorry, sorry, sorry I can’t do this and walked off. Is that what happened or am I missing something?!”

Commenting on that comment, one person said, “He’s a better person than I am. It’s kinda like with my kids… I love them always, but I don’t always like what they are doing. I can’t have respect for other others who try to impose their ideologies on unsuspecting others.”

Another was a bit more forward with what was wrong with the situation than even the man in the video, saying, “Can you blame the old man? I wouldn’t want to touch that thing under any circumstance. ”

Another noted what the point of the video was, saying, “The whole point of this was to put those older men in an uncomfortable position, and in a position where they were forced to display how they truly feel, so that there was rage fuel to use against them.”

Still another commenter noted that, Biblically, the man is correct, saying, “He is absolutely correct, God states plainly in the Bible that men are not to dress in women’s clothes. It has been awhile since I read the verse, but I believe God was just as strongly opposed to women dressing in men’s clothes. God didn’t stutter did He?”

That Bible verse is Deuteronomy 22:5. It states, “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.”

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