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Pastor fired by church after appearing in drag on HBO’s We’re Here
We’re Here.The series, hosted by Drag Race stars Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’Hara, and Shangela, features its three hosts traveling across small-town America to stage one-night-only drag shows featuring local residents. Pastor Craig Duke was reportedly “relieved of pastoral duties” by Newburgh United Methodist Church in Evansville, Ind., after the LGBTQ ally underwent a drag makeover in an episode of We’re Here that aired last month.Duke, an outspoken LGBTQ ally whose daughter came out as pansexual two years before the episode was filmed, told Religion News Service that We’re Here was “an incredibly wonderful, refreshing, deepening, powerful spiritual experience.”“I was surrounded and immersed in a culture that I’ve never been immersed