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Christians React to The Da Vinci Code

Anger over The Da Vinci Code, premiering Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, escalated Tuesday as Christian groups from South Korea, Thailand, Greece, and India planned boycotts, a hunger strike, and attempts to block or shorten screenings. The plot of the movie, adapted by Ron Howard from Dan Brown's worldwide best seller, makes the case that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children with her. In India, the government Tuesday put a temporary hold on the movie's release because of complaints. In South Korea, which has 13 million Protestants and 4.6 million Roman Catholics, a court ruled Tuesday that a Christian group's request for an injunction to block screenings lacked merit. Archibishop Angeleo Amata, a close aide to Pope Benedict XVI, urged Catholics to boycott the movie. The Archbishop called the best selling novel "stridently anti-Christian." Larry Mantle discusses these reactions and talks with guests about how Christians should respond to a movie that challenges the notions on which Christianity is based -- the divinity and celibacy of Christ.