After racking up losses in lawsuits against the Porta dos Fundos group, the Dom Bosco Center for Faith and Culture lost another one this week.
Rio’s 30th Civil Court dismissed the action seeking the removal of the video “Corpo de Cristo”, produced by Porta Fundos in 2018. catholic”, was not entitled to bring an individual action on behalf of its associates.
The ruling underlines that “freedom of worship and religion, faith, belief and religious sentiment are rights and attributes exclusively linked to natural persons, who are the recipients of religions”. And that it was up to the body to have the collective action distributed, indicating, through a list, the members represented, which was not done.
Originally shown during the 2018 religious holiday of Corpus Christi, the video actually uses the context of the date to make a playful critique of “fitness culture,” which drives people into excessive dietary restrictions as a way to lose weight. The skit features Evelyn Castro questioning a priest if the guest has gluten. Look down.
Centro Dom Bosco has a long history of losing cases to Porta dos Fundos. The group’s entire Christmas special results in a lawsuit filed by the religious association in common justice. But because the cases are about freedom and artistic expression, on the rare occasions that the association wins, the sentences are always overturned in the STF.
In a 2019 decision, Relations Minister Gilmar Mendes suggested that offended clerics simply don’t watch the content.
The repeat of the actions has already attracted attention in court and led the 11th Civil Court of São Paulo to fine the religious group last month.
Dom Bosco was sentenced to pay BRL 10,000 for conduct in bad faith when he filed a lawsuit against the animation ‘Te Prego Lá Fora’, a Porta dos Fundos Christmas special broadcast in late 2021 by streaming platform Paramount+.
The lawsuit, which asked for the censorship of the production for an alleged “attack on the Catholic faith”, was dismissed. In addition to deeming that there was no reason to ask for censure, the Judge considered that the association acted in bad faith in suing the companies in charge of advertising the special, after having sued Porta dos Fundos several times for previous productions.
“The content of the special, it is repeated, does not concern incitement to hatred, but satire, however questionable the quality of the production,” reads the sentence.
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