Millions Petition Netflix to Remove<br />Film Depicting a Gay Jesus.<br />Over two million people have banded together<br />to demand Netflix take down the Christmas<br />comedy special, ‘The First Temptation of Christ.’.<br />According to the change.org petition, the Brazilian film<br />is offensive to Christians and depicts “villainous faith.” .<br />The group's anger is believed to be due to the<br />portrayal of Jesus as a gay man, as well as<br />the film's depiction of Mary smoking weed. .<br />The comedy group behind the film, Porta dos Fundos, has<br />since released a statement in response, refusing to apologize. .<br />Porta dos Fundos values artistic freedom<br />and humor through satire on the most<br />diverse cultural themes of our society and<br />believes that freedom of expression is an<br />essential construction for a democratic country, Porta dos Fundos, via ‘People’.<br />According to the group’s co-founder,<br />Fábio Porchat, Netflix has not indicated<br />that they plan to remove the film.<br />It doesn’t incite violence, we’re not saying<br />people shouldn’t believe in God … [Netflix]<br />haven’t said anything to us like, ‘Maybe we<br />should stop making the special available.’<br />They support freedom of speech, Fábio Porchat, via ‘Variety’
