The country is home to the largest Catholic population in the world.ĭavid Miranda, an openly gay federal lawmaker in Brazil, told the Times that the ruling represented an attack on democracy. The production company Porta dos Fundos reportedly became the target of a firebomb attack on Christmas Eve.Ībicair said that the decision to ban the satire film from Netflix would benefit Brazil’s “majority Christian” society, the Times noted.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s son, also derided the film as “garbage,” saying that its contents did “not represent Brazilian society.”
The ruling came down amid escalating controversy over the film, “The First Temptation of Christ,” and the production company which produced it. Centro Dom Bosco, a Brazilian Christian organization, blasted the film as “blasphemous” and filed a lawsuit against it.
