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.

  • carbonprop@lemmy.ca
    654·
    1 year 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
      132·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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·
      1 year 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