In the name of the Lord, a Christian preacher named Kent Christmas has ‘cursed’ the new Barbie film.
Christmas might be seen in a social media video bemoaning the film’s LGBTQ+ themes.
In the clip, currently circulating online, Christmas said: ‘I curse in the name of the lord this new Barbie movie that has been released full of transexual, and transgender and homosexuality.’
The conservative preacher is the pastor of Regeneration Nashville, a church he co-founded with his wife, Candy.
The church’s website states that it tries to “present prophetic knowledge.”
The highly anticipated Barbie film, featuring Margot Robbie as the titular doll, will be released on July 21.
Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig, is a fish out of water movie about the beloved Mattel doll entering the real world for the first time, accompanied by Ryan Gosling’s Ken.
The summer movie was banned in Vietnam earlier this month because of a disputed map scene.
Due to a dispute about the map, authorities will not allow the film to be exhibited commercially on July 21 as planned.
The National Film Evaluation Council decided to prohibit Barbie because it displays a map with a nine-dash line, which represents China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
China’s neighbours, especially Vietnam, have overlapping areas and dispute the border, as do China’s territorial claims.
A United Nations dispute settlement panel in The Hague unanimously ruled in 2016 that China has no legal claim to any historic rights within the nine-dash line.
The border remains problematic because it is difficult to control, and while the UN verdict was binding, China does not accept it.
‘We do not grant license for the American movie Barbie to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash line,’ said the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper, citing Vi Kien Thanh.
Vi Kien Thanh is the general director of the Vietnam Cinema Department, which is part of the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.
Source My Celebrity Life.
