Editing Edir Macedo (section)

==Opinions and controversies==

===Opposition to interracial marriage===

Macedo was criticized for writing an article opposing [[interracial marriage]]. He tried to justify his views claiming that [[multiracial]] children should be avoided because they will suffer discrimination.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.odia.com.br/_conteudo/noticia/brasil/2014-08-18/bispo-macedo-nao-recomenda-casamento-entre-pessoas-de-racas-diferentes.html|title=Bispo Macedo não recomenda casamento entre pessoas de 'raças diferentes'|first=O.|last=Dia|date=August 18, 2014|website=O Dia – _legado_Brasil|access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://noticias.gospelmais.com.br/bispo-macedo-homens-casar-mulheres-raca-diferente-39342.html|title=Macedo: homens não devem casar com mulheres de raças diferentes|date=July 16, 2012|website=Notícias Gospel|access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref> This led to several accusations of racism and [[misogyny]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/reinaldo/edir-macedo-racismo-e-misoginia-cade-os-ministros-da-igualdade-racial-e-das-mulheres/|title=Edir Macedo, racismo e misoginia: cadê os ministros da Igualdade Racial e das Mulheres? – Reinaldo Azevedo|website=VEJA.com|access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref>

===Religious intolerance===

Macedo has been criticised, especially after the [[Chute na santa incident|'kicking of the saint' incident]] in which UCKG bishop Sérgio Von Helder, who later left the Church, kicked a Catholic icon in a TV program, for which he was later imprisoned for two years.<ref name="Jack">{{Cite news|title=Kicking of icon outrages Brazil Catholics|newspaper=The Dallas Morning News|last=Epstein|first=Jack|date=24 November 1995}}</ref><ref name=BBC>{{Cite news |title=Church makes airwaves |author=<!--not stated--> |website=BBC News |date=3 August 2000 |url= https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/864623.stm}}</ref> He also authored a book called ''Orixás, Caboclos and Guias'' in which he attacks [[Afro-Brazilian religion]], accusing it of [[Satanism]] and "the root of all of Brazil's troubles". The book was first prohibited as [[hate speech]], but after legal efforts from Macedo's church it was allowed for the sake of [[free speech]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://expresso-noticia.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/136368/trf-libera-circulacao-do-livro-de-edir-macedo|title=TRF libera circulação do livro de Edir Macedo|website=Jusbrasil|access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref>

===Status of women===

Edir Macedo stated in a 2019 sermon that daughters should not be allowed to seek out higher education, because if they do they will be "smarter than their husbands", and that he personally would not allow his daughters to go to college because he believes that an educated woman cannot have a happy marriage: "When they [my daughters] went out, I said they would just go to high school and they wouldn't go to college. My wife supported me, but the relatives found it absurd. Why don't you go to college? Because if you graduate from a particular profession, you will serve yourself, you will work for yourself. But I don’t want that, you came to serve God. Because if (…) she was a doctor and had a high degree of knowledge and found a boy who had a low degree of knowledge, he would not be the head, she would be the head. And if it were the head, it would not serve God's will. I want my daughters to marry a male. A man who has to be head. They have to be head. Because if they are not head their marriage is doomed to failure."<ref>Ingrid Soares, "Bispo Edir Macedo diz que mulher não pode ter mais estudo que o marido", Correio Braziliense, September 24, 2019 [https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/brasil/2019/09/24/interna-brasil,789307/bispo-edir-macedo-diz-que-mulher-nao-pode-ter-mais-estudo-que-o-marido.shtml], translated to English on the Patheos website [https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/10/bishop-daughters-should-be-uneducated-so-theyre-not-smarter-than-husbands/]</ref>

===Federal Justice indictment===

Edir Macedo was indicted by the Federal Justice for import of equipment and use of public documents and legal proceedings, but not convicted. Ten years later he was prosecuted again by the prosecutors of the State of São Paulo. On October 19, 2010 the São Paulo Justice Court (TJ-SP) annulled all accusations made by the São Paulo Public Ministry against the UCKG and its principal representatives by a majority vote. The judges deemed that the São Paulo prosecutors did not have jurisdiction to investigate the case, as the accusations were of a type that fell into the federal jurisdiction.<ref>[http://www.universopolitico.com/exibir.php?noticia=7805 Universo Politico: Accusations against UCKG recognised as illegal, 24 October 2010] {{in lang|pt}}</ref>