Trying to talk to conservative Christians should come with hazard pay, but one drag queen is going viral for her unique way of turning the interaction around.
While attending Canyon Country Pride on June 8, drag queen Cookie Pusss passed by a man named Paul who was holding a sign reading, “I’m A Sinner” while encouraging Pride parade attendees to repent their sins, Queerty reports.
“Anything that does not reflect the nature and character of god is not to be worshipped,” Paul said of people glorifying pride as a virtue in the now-viral TikTok video.
We've all been to Pride Parades where anti-LGBTQ+ Christian protestors have held up hateful signs and hurled bible verses at queer marchers, but Cookie Pusss managed to stop Paul dead in his tracks by asking him a random "get to know you" style question that turns the whole conversation around: “What’s your favorite pizza topping?”
In an instant, Paul goes from having a scowl on his face to smiling, but seems unsure why he’s being asked about pizza, calling the question a “non sequitur” while they were having a “good conversation.”
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“I would give it a five out of 10. You were just kind of spouting stuff. I think the cool stuff is getting to know you,” Cookie Pusss responds.
The drag queen tells Paul that if he tells her what his favorite kind of pizza is, she’ll listen to him “talk about idolatry for like five more minutes.”
Paul lights up and says, “What a deal,” before telling Cookie Pusss that bacon is his favorite topping.
The two have a short conversation about pizza as though they were friends and not on opposing sides of a vast political divide, before she says, “Well, see, now we have something we can relate on.”
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The comment section of the TikTok video, which has already been viewed 670,000 times at the time of publication, is full of people who are pleasantly surprised that the drag queen was able to turn the conversation around so easily by talking to Paul as though he were a friend.
“I’m not joking this needs to be studied because you literally made him snap out of it for a second,” someone commented.
“Oh he flirting honeyyyy,” another person wrote.
“Wait a second, tricking them into a real convo might heal the entire world,” commented someone else.
“Honestly the way you switched him from hateful religious monologuing to actual conversation was brilliant, I hope that helped him see you and others within the LGBT community as a person,” another comment read.
Cookie Pusss has tried other tactics with anti-LGBTQ+ protestors, including in April when she posed and twerked in front of them in a granny-square skirt, high-heeled boots, and a bikini-style top. But it was this simple question about pizza that seems to have made the biggest difference.
Cookie Pusss did not immediately respond to Pride's request for comment.
