Franklin Graham Calls for Christian boycott of Disney's ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (opens March 17)

Biz Pac Review ^ | March 5, 2017 | Scott Morefield

[drewh]

Will Christians roll over and allow Disney to push their LGBT agenda on an audience entirely too young to be exposed to this nonsense by buying a ticket, and thereby supporting, the studio’s highly anticipated remake of a beloved children’s classic?

Conservative evangelist Franklin Graham is calling on Christians to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to the upcoming Disney Beauty and the Beast remake.

View image on Twitter View image on Twitter Follow Franklin Graham ✔ @Franklin_Graham I met Walt Disney when I was a young boy—He'd be shocked at what has happened to the company he started. #TBT https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/posts/1423857191003791 … 1:07 PM - 2 Mar 2017 802 802 Retweets 2,780 2,780 likes In a Facebook post published Thursday that has as of this writing received over 150,000 likes and almost 100,000 shares, Graham wrote:

“Disney has aired a cartoon with same-sex couples kissing. It has also been announced that their new movie “Beauty and the Beast” will feature a gay character in an attempt to normalize this lifestyle. They’re trying to push the LGBT agenda into the hearts and minds of your children—watch out! Disney has the right to make their cartoons, it’s a free country. But as Christians we also have the right not to support their company. I hope Christians everywhere will say no to Disney. I met Walt Disney when I was a young boy—he was very gracious to me, my father Billy Graham, and my younger brother when we visited. He would be shocked at what has happened to the company that he started.” The controversy erupted when director Bill Condon told Attitude Magazine that one of his film’s characters, LeFou, has an “exclusively gay moment” on-screen with villain Gaston.

“LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston,” Condon said. “He’s confused about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realizing that he has these feelings. And Josh [Gad, who plays LeFou] makes something really subtle and delicious out of it. And that’s what has its pay-off at the end, which I don’t want to give away. But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie.”

Graham’s comments could merely be the opening salvo. On Friday, Time reported an Alabama movie theater’s announced refusal to screen the movie when it releases on March 17.

Naturally, social justice warrior types have praised Disney’s openness and “inclusivity,” but might Disney have crossed a bridge too far by including their social justice warrior nonsense in a movie that depends on an entirely different demographic to be successful?

[HLPhat]

Yep.

Did a couple of years contracting in IT at FOH TDA back circa Y2K.

The queer nepotism “Rocket Rod” express was running full speed in the caste system by then.

It clearly wasn’t Walt’s Disney anymore.

[freepertoo]

I love Disney World...but I won’t be going, ever again. Breaks my heart.

[otness_e]

Heh, you thought Emma Watson was bad, try Belle’s own creator for the Disney version, Linda Woolverton. She makes Watson seem like a moderate. I’m not kidding, just watch the Maleficent movie that she made, I dare you to find ANY human males that she DOESN’T denigrate as either being complete monsters or buffoons. And what’s worse, she actually stated that she inserted that kind of theme in the 1991 version of Beauty and the Beast and made clear she based Belle on the 1960s-1970s feminist movement.

Let’s hope someone replaces Iger and actually tries to bring it back to what Walt Disney envisioned, including actually greeting people who visit the parks who AREN’T merely suits.

[Caipirabob]

Wow - thanks for the info. One can hope that Disney learns a financial lesson here but the left seems to have rallied and their deceit peddlers are working overtime to salvage this mess.

[servantboy777]

A couple of years ago, we went out to visit the in-laws out on the space coast for Christmas. He suggested taking us all to Disney’s Epcot. This was shortly after the news of Disney having their American workers train their foreign replacements.

I said, “Pops, here’s the story on Disney, how bout we just go have some good seafood instead”.

So, we did. Disney is dead to me.