Beauty and the Beast, a live-action film from Walt Disney Pictures opens March 17 in the United States and some prominent Christian leaders are encouraging Christians to boycott the film because of what the film's director has called "an exclusively gay moment." Brandon Showalter, who has been covering this story for The Christian Post, offers some insight. And a recent survey shows that two-thirds of Americans believe that Muslims face more discrimination in the U.S. than Christians, but among white evangelicals, that number drops to 44 percent. Mark Lockard and I discuss why. [Download episode]

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