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Courts Saturday backed Mayor Marcelo Crivella's attack on LGBTQ comics, which started Thursday when he posted a video message on Twitter ordering booksellers to stop selling copies of the 2010 graphic novel Avengers: The Children's Crusade Crivella, who once called homosexuality "a terrible evil" and is a bishop of the evangelical megachurch Universal Church of[...]

pic.twitter.com/sFw82bqmOx — Marcelo Crivella (@MCrivella) September 5, 2019 An hour after Crivella posted his message, the book had reportedly sold out across the festival However, Crivella, who called homosexuality a "terrible evil" in his book, Evangelizing Africa, soon escalated the matter, dispatching 15 government officials to scour the festival for inappropriate and "pornographic" material and either confiscate[...]

Earlier today, we told you about Rio de Janeiro mayor Marcelo Crivella's order that booksellers at the city's 19th International Book Biennial stop displaying copies of Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung's 2010 comic book series Avengers: The Children's Crusade Unfortunately for Crivella, who is also a bishop of the evangelical Universal Church of the Kingdom[...]