Lin-Manuel Miranda reacts to Texas church’s “illegal” Hamilton performance: “Now lawyers do their work”
Lin-Manuel Miranda slammed The Door church over their unauthorised and homophobic version of Hamilton. At the start of August, the South Texas-based church went viral on social media after they hosted a performance of the famous historical musical.
However unlike the source material, the church’s heavily edited show included references to Jesus and Christianity. The conservative performance then concluded with an anti-LGBTQ+ sermon by The Door pastor Victor Lopez – which featured him comparing homosexuality to drug addiction. “Maybe you struggle with alcohol, with drugs, homosexuality.
Maybe you struggle with other things in life, your finances, whatever, relationships — God can help you tonight,” Lopez said.
On 10 August, Miranda finally broke his silence by taking to Twitter and condemning The Door for their illegal performance of the hit show. “Grateful to all of you who reached out about this illegal, unauthorized production.
