India denies clearence for Da vinci code

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[voice of india]

New Delhi: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has said that the film, Da Vinci Code will not be given clearance till it is screened before the Catholic Churches Association of India.

Over 200 organisations have submitted their pleas against the screening of the film to Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi.

An Information and Broadcasting Ministry official has said that Dasmunsi will sought the opinion of the concerned organisations before relasing the movie in India.

Meanwhile, Goa government has passed a resolution to ban the movie, Da Vinci Code and has also asked the Centre to impose a nationwide ban.

[FerdieMurphy]

Good news for India!

In our country the anti-Christian farce will be viewed by millions of gullibles.

The president of Notre Dame University has decided to allow the perverted "Vagina Monologues" to be presented on campus. He stated that it is being done in the interest of opening the gates of the school to other ideas. He doesn't want the school closed to trendy thought.

[FostersExport]

I can’t say I agree with censorship. It only gives the impression that there is something to hide.

I saw a program about the truth (or lack thereof) behind the Da Vinci Code. The book is total fluff but the history behind how it was all made up was pretty interesting.

[RexBeach]

I presume this means that the "Penis Profiles" will be performed at Notre Dame in the near future?

[sageb1]

"The government has taken cognisance of a letter by an organisation named the Catholic Association of Goa, which feared this movie would hurt the sentiments of Christians," Rane said after chairing a meeting of the state cabinet."

This is absolutely ridiculous and only serves to make Christians in India sound as ignorant as Muslims. Contrary to the growing global worldview, human beings are not born with a right to live their lives free from that which offends them. Offended? Write a letter to the editor and get over it.

[rod1]

Only the abbreviated version--reconstructed from the prior Bobbit edition.

[FerdieMurphy]

They'll probably allow Bill Maher to discuss his book "Bill Clinton's Talking Penis" to the students, answer questions and give practical demonstrations.

[nosofar]

I presume this means that the "Penis Profiles" will be performed at Notre Dame in the near future?

Not sure about that, but I expect the Protocols of Zion will be a hot seller there.

[SmoothTalker]

"Good news for India!
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No it isn't. I quit reading the awful book forty pages in and the movie looks to be awful but censorship is not something I support ever. I don't like the idea of the government deciding what is and isn't acceptable speech. Censorship is a very slippery slope.

[FerdieMurphy]

Film review and approval worked well here in the U. S. A. when I was growing up and the Catholic Church's Legion of Decency helped guide the parents of "young minds full of mush."

All that, of course, has gone by the wayside and today anything goes including anti-Christian books, lecturers and movies.

[SmoothTalker]

"All that, of course, has gone by the wayside."

If you don't like something, then don't go. Start a boycott against the company. Write letters to the editior. Support films, books, or speakers that you do like. But don't try to get things banned. I don't like the idea that we somehow have a right to go through life without being offended. Censorship might sound nice to you at the moment, but I can promise you it isn't. It won't only be the films and books you don't like that would get censored if we had an aggresive censorship regime. Eventually some ideas you support would find themselves censored. It is a very slipperly slope.