Lebanon, once thought of as among the most liberal parts of the Middle East, is poised to ban global hit movie “Barbie.” More conservative Kuwait said Wednesday that it had gone ahead with a ban due to its promotion of homosexuality.

  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    65
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    2 years ago

    It’s disgusting that homosexuality is seen as such an abhorrent thing in this day and age. Are all humans not capable of love? If the answer is a resounding yes, then why are we stopping consenting adults from expressing this? Because of some archaic scripture from thousands of years ago? Excuse my French here, Lebanon, but kindly get to fuck.

    • carbonprop@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      42
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      This is exactly why the separation of church and state is supposed to exist in democracies. The zealots will continue to take away your rights until morale improves.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        I’ll just mention that in the middle east the vast majority of people don’t support LGBT rights. Bringing up the separation of church and state makes no sense in this context.

        • ickplant@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          They don’t support those rights cause they have been brainwashed by their religion. Maybe if religion was removed from government, that wouldn’t be the case, at least not to this extent.

      • utopianfiat@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        22
        ·
        2 years ago

        Are you seriously whatabouting countries that regularly arrest and torture queer people for being queer?

      • Hurts@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        2 years ago

        I think your number is a bit off.

        Edit to reflect the true severity or the comment is getting removed for misinformation.

      • yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 years ago

        But we had almost 120000 Jews killed in concentrationcamps.

        If you want to deny the holocaust you might wanna be a little more subtle, fascist.

        BTW, holocaust denial is, as you surely know, a criminal offence in „your country“.

        Now go and follow your leader.