'Hamilton' team responds to Texas church's unauthorized performance

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A Texas church performed 'Hamilton' this weekend, but the team behind the Tony-award winning production says it shouldn't have happened.

of the production shared on social media. A sermon reportedly delivered to the audience also compared homosexuality to drug addiction, according to video.

Tony, Grammy and Emmy-winning smash that retells the tale of the "10-dollar founding father" Alexander Hamilton and his contemporaries with a cast mostly comprised of people of colour. Much of the footage from the church's first "Hamilton" performance was scrubbed from The Door's social media accounts, per the production's cease-and-desist request. But some clips were preserved online and shared by Hemant Mehta, a writer and atheist advocate.

Other footage shared by Mehta reportedly shows The Door pastor Victor Lopez addressing the audience on stage, with "Hamilton" sets behind him, and he says: "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."to read a sonnet that addressed the shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, that killed 50 people hours before the award show.

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