Brazilian Judge Blocks Gay Jesus Movie, Supreme Court Reverses

Reuters (Fabio Texeira) reported:

A Brazilian judge ordered the streaming entertainment service Netflix to stop showing a controversial movie depicting Jesus as a gay man, according to court documents made public on Wednesday.

In the ruling against Netflix, the state court judge said: "The right to freedom of expression … is not absolute."

The First Temptation of Christ, created by Brazilian YouTube comedy group Porta dos Fundos, portrays Jesus bringing home a presumed boyfriend to meet his family.

The show, which started playing on Netflix last month as a Christmas special, has caused an uproar among Brazil's conservative Christians.

Agence France-Presse has an update:

The head of the Supreme Federal Court, Judge Antonio Dias Toffoli, sided with the streaming platform's appeal against a temporary injunction banning the movie….

"One cannot suppose that a humorous satire has the ability to weaken the values of the Christian faith, whose existence is traced back more than two thousand years, and which is the belief of the majority of Brazlian citizens," the judge said.

Unfortunately,

On Christmas Eve, the production company's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro were attacked with Molotov cocktails. No one was hurt. Police said several men with their faces covered took part in the assault.

Police have identified a man named Eduardo Fauzi as a suspect after analyzing security camera footage. He fled to Russia.

Comments

[JohannesDinkle]

I eagerly await the next big Netflix movie - the one about the gay Mohammed. When you believe in pushing against the false morality of stupid, ignorant believers there is not barrier to your fearlessness.
Or maybe there is.

[Krayt]

I'm sure that'll come about the same time Hollywood and the NBA boycott China as they do certain states from time to time.

What virtue signalling, if the money is big enough.

[James Pollock]

"I eagerly await the next big Netflix movie – the one about the gay Mohammed."

So go ahead and make the movie. Although, a historical note: Muhammed was married, and Jesus wasn't.

[Bill Poser]

As a Jew of a certain age and time, he probably was married. The claim that he was not is arguably a change produced by later Pauline influence. The obvious candidate for his wife is Mary Magdalene. For some reason this hypothesis is upsetting to many Christians.

[gormadoc]

One, it wasn't a movie; it was a TV special that would have been nothing if skins weren't thin. Two, there have been specials on Netflix that make fun of Islam in general (Jeff Dunham) and some of South Park (which routinely ridicules Muhammed) is there while most of it is on Amazon Prime.

[Krychek_2]

Assuming Jesus actually lived, which some of us doubt, is there any reason to categorically say that he wasn't gay? It's kind of hard to know with whom any particular historical figure was sleeping 2000 years ago.