The United Arab of Emirates (UAE) recently made the decision to ban a new Disney Pixar film “Lightyear” – a spin-off of the popular character Buzz Lightyear – because the newly acclaimed film featured a lesbian couple kissing each other.
According to the Daily Mail, other heavily Islamic nations like Malaysia and other Middle Eastern countries, are also set to do something similar.
[The film] is not licensed for public screening in all cinemas in the UAE, due to its violation of the country’s media content standards.The office confirms that all films screened in cinemas across the country are subject to follow-up and evaluation before the date of screening to the public, to ensure the safety of the circulated content according to the appropriate age classification.
UAE’s Media Regulatory Office of the country’s Ministry of Youth and Culture said in a tweet
An Arabic hashtag ‘Ban Showing Lightyear in the Emirates’ circulated on social media this past weekend, even though advertisements for the film had already begun in the UAE.
Daily Mail noted, ‘The US State Department warns that Islamic – or Shariah – law in the UAE can include the death penalty for same-sex conduct, while Dubai can levy a 10-year prison sentence and Abu Dhabi allows for up to 14 years.’
Meanwhile Russia is also cracking down on their stances regarding LGTBQIA+ entertainment, lifestyles, and what they deem as “propaganda.”
According to RT, the proposed bill that is currently under review by Russia’s State Duma and legislation committee, could see fines of up to $160,000 imposed for the promotion of ‘non-traditional sexual relations.’
Family, motherhood and childhood in their traditional understanding, which comes from our ancestors, are the values that ensure the continuous change of generations, act as a condition for the preservation and development of a multinational people, and therefore need special state protections.
[Fines for propaganda are aimed at] forming non-traditional sexual attitudes, the attractiveness of non-traditional sexual relations, a distorted idea of the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations, and the imposition of information about non-traditional sexual relations, causing interest in such relations.[Drafters of the bill added] “at the same time, the threats arising from the imposition of foreign standards that break the generally accepted way of life in the field of family and marriage begs the question about a need to protect the culture of the majority, including by introducing additional legal regulation.”A note attached to the bill describing some of what is in it
RT further details the varying degrees of penalties and jailtime propagandists could face:
As long as those actions do not constitute a criminal offense, it is proposed to introduce fines for members of the public of between 40,000 and 50,000 rubles ($660-$830), and penalties of between 100,000 and 500,000 ($1,660-$8,300) for officials. Legal entities could face fines of between one million and five million rubles ($16,600-$83,000) or a suspension of activities for up to 90 days.
The punishments would be more severe if the suspected violations were carried out with the use of mass media or the internet, in which case the fines would range from 100,000 and 500,000 rubles ($1,660- $8,300) for ordinary citizens, 500,000 to one million rubles ($8,300-$16,600) for officials, and up to 10 million ($166,000) for legal entities.
Foreign citizens are also mentioned in the bill, as they could also face fines of between 40,000 and 100,000 rubles ($660-$1,660) or from 100,000 to 500,000 ($1,660- $8,300) if they use the internet for the promotion of such relationships. Alternatively, foreign citizens or people without citizenship could face a 15-day administrative arrest followed by expulsion from the Russian Federation.
However the bill itself doesn’t ban and prohibit LGTBQIA+ lifestyles, or the discussions of it a “neutral context,” nor does it restrict the personal liberties of the people to chose what they identify and present themselves as.
Earlier this year Electronic Arts (EA) was deliberating on if they should market their latest expansion pack for their popular videogame The Sims 4 called “My Wedding Stories,” that featured two lesbian protagonists who could get married in the game, to Russia because of the nation’s preexisting laws against the marketing of sodomy. Ultimately EA decided to market it anyways.
It’s equally important for us to stand by our values, including standing against homophobia, and to share stories like this with those who want and need it most. Love is love, and The Sims community will continue to be a safe space for those who want to see a world where that is true for everyone. We are thankful for the support of our team and our values even when it is hard.
EA wrote in a statement
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
Proverbs 14:34
To be clear: I am NOT saying that Russia, and especially the UAE and other Muslim nations are “righteous.” Notwithstanding it is in stark contrast to the West and United States whose levies and dams are busted wide open, and abominations continue to flood and drown the nation’s people out; because the people refuse to acknowledge that the busted down dam is the cause, and are actually running around telling us that things are doing wonderful.
As the obvious powershift in the world continues to pan out right before our eyes, the West is going to be destroyed and heavily judged first by the Lord. The Lord judges hypocrites and backsliders much more readily and severely, for having the truth and reaping the blessings of it, to then abandon it and manipulate it like the West has for sometime.
However, once the US and the West gets laid to waste, then the Lord will then turn his attention the Eastern lands that just witnessed fierce judgment at hand, and if those nations do not repent of their wickedness (which they won’t), then the Lord will deal with them – bringing to us the events, I believe, as laid-out in the book of Revelation and other OT prophets.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Canadian Blood Services accepting Sodomite blood…The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (60k + members) promotes it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/cupw/status/1532079033512513537?cxt=HHwWgsCyhfDwhMMqAAAA
Now the people in Canada should be concerned for transfusions, because I would not want sodomite blood or vaccinated blood contamination. Again, huge shift in “blood” themes nowadays, and the Lord gets red hot over blood.
Second point, “all blood is equal” is a contempt at the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work.
https://www.cupw.ca/en/pride-2022-all-blood-equal
These people are wholly given over to Satan. Judgement is upon Canada. Not good for the lost.
Right On!!!
Here’s another example of an unrighteousness nation being righteous:
A playboy magazine printing office was opened in Indonesia-which is a major Muslim country, more Muslims than in Saudi Arabia. Others being Buddhist or tribal black magic, and the people are angry and outraged and they took up arms and they smashed up the office!
Muslims have better standards despite they’re a satanic cult that were created by the Vatican than the “christians” in America who barely if ever outraged when playboy was first founded in 1953!