Brazil’s Supreme Court overturns ban on Netflix’s gay Jesus film

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Brazil’s Supreme Court issues order allowing Netflix to continue streaming a satirical film depicting Jesus as a gay man, reaffirming Brazilians’ right to free speech. - NBCOUT

A scene from the Netflix production "Porta dos Fundos's Christmas Special: Christ's First Temptation," on Dec. 26, 2019.RIO DE JANEIRO — The president of Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday issued an order that allows streaming service Netflix to continue exhibiting a satirical film depicting Jesus as a gay man and reaffirmed Brazilians’ right to free speech.

“It is not to be assumed that a humorous satire has the magic power to undermine the values ​​of the Christian faith, whose existence goes back more than two thousand years,” Supreme Court President José Antonio Dias Toffoli wrote in his decision. Netflix earlier the same day filed an official complaint with the country’s top legal authority, decrying attempted censorship by a judge in Rio de JaneiroSign Up

 

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