Rio’s Pentecostal mayor takes on the capital of Carnival

Washington Post ^ | December 13, 2017 | Anthony Faiola and Anna Jean Kaiser

[C19fan]

The mayor of this sultry metropolis slashed funding for Carnival, its gay pride parade and a procession honoring an Afro-Brazilian goddess. Mayor Marcelo Crivella, a Pentecostal Christian, calls the moves fiscal prudence. But Rio’s libertines see a thinly veiled crusade to impose God’s law from city hall.

As political polarization intensifies in the United States, Latin America’s largest nation is locked in its own escalating culture wars, with the rise of an increasingly powerful religious right.

[C19fan]

Rio has not money so at least the mayor is cutting non-essential items. A society needs a healthy dose of puritanism to operate in a modern world.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Fags are rich. Let them pay for their own sodomite parade.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Not a surprise. Pentecostals are thriving in Brazil. I understand that they have 23 millon members.
 

[Gay State Conservative]

Of course this piece appearing in the Compost means that they *disapprove* of the Perv Parade being de-funded.

[rrrod]

True and even in other S.A. countries. Way too soft on corruption and commies IMHO

[rrrod]

True and even in other S.A. countries. Way too soft on corruption and commies IMHO