Conservatives are clutching their pearls in horror over Sam Smith and Kim Petras' cheeky performance at the Grammys.

During Sunday night's ceremony, the pair took center stage to perform their hit song "Unholy," which also won the award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The hell-themed showcase featured several red-robed dancers, cages, whips and Smith sporting a top hat adorned with red devil horns.

Naturally, conservative critics took offense at this apparent love letter to the Prince of Darkness and took to Twitter to slam the performance. The comments ranged from interpreting the number as an actual Satanic ritual to – what else? – an attempt to advance the vaccine agenda.

"If as a Christian, you think we are reaching when we talk about the dominance and normalization of Satan worship in pop music, you need discernment," wrote Christian life coach Solomon Buchi. "Sam Smith's performance at the Grammy's last night was satanic, gory. No, it's not art; it's symbolic of who they serve."

Similarly, Human Events editor Ben Kew tweeted, "I know we on the right probably use the word satanic too often but this performance from Sam Smith is literally a tribute to Satan."

Newsman's Benny Johnson also wrote, "The Grammys have gone full-on Satan worship right on prime time TV," before sharing video of said Satan worship to his Twitter flock.

The hellish performance would've been enough to incite criticism, but then it was followed by an ad for sponsor Phizer, which naturally set off the anti-vax right, which has perpetuated the misinformation that the COVID vaccine is the "Mark of the Beast" – you know, the new one after RFID microchips.

Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted, "The Grammy's featured Sam Smith's demonic performance and was sponsored by Pfizer. And the Satanic Church now has an abortion clinic in NM that requires its patients to perform a satanic ritual before services. American Christians need to get to work."

In the same vein, Charlie Kirk, the founder and president of the right-wing conservative nonprofit organization Turning Point USA, wrote, "The Devil. Brought to you by Pfizer . . ." And Sen. Ted Cruz added that "Pfizer is taking the whole truth in advertising thing pretty literally . . ." before calling the performance "evil."

Conservative influencer Robby Starbuck also wrote, "Sam Smith's satanic performance at the Grammy's ended with a Pfizer commercial. You can't get it more on the nose than that. Pfizer and Hollywood deserve each other."

In an interview with Variety, Petras explained the inspiration behind her Grammy performance with Smith:

"I think a lot of people, honestly, have labeled what I stand for and what Sam stands for as religiously not cool, and I personally grew up wondering about religion and wanting to be a part of it but slowly realizing it didn't want me to be a part of it," she said. "So it's a take on not being able to choose religion. And not being able to live the way that people might want you to live, because as a trans person I'm already not wanted in religion. So we were doing a take on that, and I was hellkeeper Kim."

Petras is also the first transgender woman to win a Grammy award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Another day, another Disney animated film is up for a lesser live-action remake. The latest film dusted off from the vault, however, has created a stir with Peter Dinklage.

In a recent episode of Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast, the "Game of Thrones" actor Peter Dinklage criticized the upcoming "Snow White" remake for its portrayal of the title character's mentors and saviors.

Last June, it was announced that "West Side Story" star Rachel Zegler — who is of Colombian and Polish descent — would play the film's titular character. While her casting made the character more inclusive, that same degree of thoughtfulness however, was not afforded to the narratives of Snow White's seven companions.

"Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback when they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White — but you're still telling the story of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,'" Dinklage told Maron.

"Take a step back and look at what you're doing there. It makes no sense to me," Dinklage continued. "You're progressive in one way, but then you're still making that f**king backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together? What the f**k are you doing, man? Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soapbox? I guess I'm not loud enough."

On Tuesday, Disney quickly responded to Dinklage's remarks in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

"To avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film, we are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community," the statement detailed. "We look forward to sharing more as the film heads into production after a lengthy development period."

Consulting with members of the dwarfism community is a step in the right direction, because this is not merely a casting issue but one of storytelling and characterization. Snow White's dwarf friends have traditionally been depicted as less than fully realized people, basically there to work in the mines and offer her shelter. The Brothers Grimm fairy tale in 1812 doesn't even give them separate identities or names, referring to them as "the first one," etc. Subsequent adaptations have given them cutesy, non-human names (such as Dopey or Sneezy) and depicted them as childlike or as the vehicle for jokes.

As with many issues regarding authentic and nuanced representation, the benefits are not just for those in the community to see themselves on screen. Rather, the way people are portrayed also affects those outside of the community by how they regard and treat people of color, with dwarfism, with disabilities or other marginalized groups in real life.

Throughout his career, Dinklage has been outspoken about the on-screen portrayal of people with dwarfism. In his 2012 Golden Globe acceptance speech, Dinklage urged his audience to Google a name — Martin Henderson. Henderson, who was 4-foot-2, was left partially paralyzed after being thrown by an unknown, drunk Rugby fan in 2012. Four years later, Henderson passed away at the age of 42.

"People are all, like, I dedicated it to him," Dinklage told The New York Times. "They've made it more romantic than it actually was. I just wanted to go, 'This is screwed up.' Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice. Not just by people who've had too much to drink in England and want to throw a person. But by media, everything. You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule."

Dinklage is not involved in the production of Disney's "Snow White." At this time, Gal Gadot, who is slated to play the Evil Queen, and Tony Award winner Andrew Burnap will star alongside Zegler.

Disney previously sought advice from Pixar's lead cultural consultant Marcela Davison Avilés during the production of its 2017 animated film "Coco" — which centers on Mexico's Día de los Muertos holiday. The entertainment conglomerate also employed cultural consultants for its 2019 live-action remake of "Aladdin." According to a Conversation article by Evelyn Alsultany, Disney reached out to Middle Eastern, South Asian and Muslim scholars, activists and creatives to help prevent stereotyping, which was also a major issue in the 1992 animated feature. Alsultany — who is an associate professor of American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — was part of the group.

In June, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Bill Cosby's sex crime conviction in a surprise ruling. Now — months after Cosby's release — the Pennsylvania district attorney, who first found the disgraced comedian guilty of multiple counts of sexual assault, is appealing to the United States Supreme Court to reinstate Cosby's conviction, according to Variety.

Montgomery County District Attorney, Kevin Steele — who presided over Cosby's 2018 arrest — branded the Pennsylvania court's ruling as "a dangerous precedent" and penned a petition to the Supreme Court. According to a press release outlined by Variety, Steele further argued that the ruling raised "issues under the Constitution's due process clause."

"Where a prosecutor publicly announces that he will not file criminal charges based on lack of evidence, does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment transform that announcement into a binding promise that no charges will ever be filed, a promise that the target may rely on as if it were a grant of immunity?" Steele asked in the release.

In 2018, Cosby was sentenced to three-to-10 years in prison for sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia home in 2004. Constand first reported the assault on January 2005. That same year, Cosby struck a deal with former Montgomery County District Attorney, Bruce Castor, who fuddled the case after deciding not to file charges against Cosby.

In 2015, when Steele assumed his position as district attorney, Cosby was officially charged after numerous women echoed Constand's reports and alleged that Cosby had also drugged and sexually assaulted them. Three years later, Cosby was convicted. But the conviction was subsequently overturned in 2021 due to Castor's previous promises to not prosecute Cosby — which still held precedence years later.

"There is no merit to the D.A.'s request which centers on the unique facts of the Cosby case and has no impact on important federal questions of law," said Andrew Wyatt, Cosby's spokesman. "This is a pathetic last-ditch effort that will not prevail. The Montgomery County's D.A.'s fixation with Mr. Cosby is troubling to say the least."

To this day, Cosby has managed to keep a low-profile and stay out of the public eye. Perhaps this upcoming petition will change that.