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 du…

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
    1087·
    11 months 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
      664·
      11 months 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
        142·
        11 months 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
          145·
          11 months 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.

      • jeanma@lemmy.ninja
        28·
        11 months ago

        So what? should you bring your “democracy” over there? It happens in Kuweit (8000km away) for a stupid american movie.

        I am rather shocked by the amount of money this dump made, it gives quite an indication on the level of maturity of this f’d up society.

        Yes I know, i’m uncool

    • electrogamerman@lemmy.world
      124·
      11 months ago

      As a gay man, these are my thoughts every single day. Do I not deserve love? Is some old book really more important than what’s happening now? I just don’t get it.

      • Noughmad@programming.dev
        112·
        11 months ago

        It’s not about the book, it’s not even about sexuality. Yes these are the justifications they use, but at the core it’s all about finding someone they can hurt, and they found you. The cruelty is the point.

        • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
          3·
          11 months ago

          This seems a bit oversimplified ? I am no scholar, but as far as I can tell it’s phobias all the way down : these islamic lawmakers (certainly not using the term muslim here as I reserve it to refer to decent religious people) don’t know shit about homosexuality, and as we know ignorance holds the door open for bigotry and hate. This quickly becomes self-perpetuating as gay folks have no way of changing that status quo without risking their lives, and become invisible in these societies. I would say it’s about difference, and difference in sexuality certainly