Posted on 03/05/2017 7:52:54 PM PST by 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?
“Disney has the right to make their cartoons, it’s a free country.”
It’s been a “free” country for over two centuries, but for most of those two centuries promoting homosexuality would have resulted in prison. Promoting it to children would probably have resulted in a public hanging.
Even conservatives and Christians have fallen for the propaganda that free speech and free press include the right to promote obscenity and perversion.
But sure, a boycott is better than nothing.
Michael Eisner - no talent, blatant liberal, gun controlling arrogant piece of . . .
Done. No “Dispervs” for our family.
She was pretty well savaged as a bad actress in the “Daily Mail” on another thread. Hilarious and brutal. It seemed that her main draw is that she is a feminist which does not conjur the image of a loving, gentle and absolutely not frothing at the mouth crazy “Belle”.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Boycott.
No thanks to the B&B remake. We can tolerate and even accept the gay lifestyle without having it pounded into our children’s heads day in and day out. Let them learn about it when they reach the age of consent.
The movie should be rated PG-13 or R, obviously.
i believe Gay week is the 1st week of June. and yes, it’s awful to save up for a great vacation and end up seeing all “that”.
LGBT propaganda foisted onto our children. As though another reason is needed to boycott Hollywood . . .
PING!
We have four kids, youngest is 17.
They are probably the only kids in America who never whined that they wanted to go to Disney World.
And we never went. I’ve seen the ticket prices and was never willing to take out a loan for a vacation.
We have three daughters, youngest is 17. They didn’t grow up with Disney anything, other than Winnie the Pooh. About 13 years ago the company I worked for had a record sales year. The owner flew everyone to Disney in Orlando. I asked my girls if they wanted to go. They looked at me and said,”Why,Daddy?” We stayed home.
Boss man didn’t like it, but I didn’t particularly care.
Thanks for the date clarification.
I was at Disneyland once in 1966 and we had no such worries then.
Nice.
We had some of the movies but that’s about it.
My daughter wrote a report for one of her college classes analyzing the various Disney princesses. I don’t remember the theme.
It’s sad how Disney has squandered their birthright for a bowl of cold dirty porridge.
As a Voice Teacher and Vocal Coach, I have seen the stage show many times, when my own students were involved in the production. The BEST one was Calvary Chapel High School which had a complete Pit Orchestra comprised totally of students, and production values worthy of Broadway. There were NO innuendos in these productions, and they were terrific. The show is MUCH better than anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber, of which I have also seen quite a few.
Disney is STUPID to ruin this charming musical, based upon an ancient fairy tale, to suit an agenda. It is a form of economic and artistic suicide.
One merely has to look at the “art” of Stalin’s USSR, or Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” to see the banality and ugliness of Agenda-Driven and Controlled Art.
Who is the target audience? Families with children.
Who will now be the least likely audience to see i? Families with children.
“...We stayed home...”
Great story - thanks for sharing this. We avoided Disney for our 4 daughters growing up as well (now 20’s and youngest 19, a freshman in college).
We specifically avoided the newer femininist propaganda movies such as Moulin (or however it’s spelled), Pocahontas and the new agey stuff; and they did NOT watch the liberal brainwashing teen shows on TV (back then it was Miley Cyrus) where the adults, especially the white Dads, were always portrayed as foolish and bumbling. Horrible.
We did, vaery sparingly, allow Snow White and the early classics.
Disney is now awful with its subliminal anti family messages and I hope all Christians boycott. Our granddaughter will not be attending!
I was just letting you know in case you knew someone that wanted to go....and i should clarify, thats what i know of Florida Disney, i guess it’s Gay Year in California.
“...own students...”
Yes- our daughter was Mrs. Potts her senior year last year in their high school play - she should have been Belle but it was truly politics - the girl they cast as Belle’s father was on the school board and a liberal lobbyist lawyer by profession. Somehow he managed to on the down low trade funds for a new stage for his daughter to get the lead - it wasn’t just me - many in the school (even within the music department) felt that our daughter ought to have been Belle (clearly I am not over it). Our daughter looks like the Broadway Belle - perfect features, soprano - perfect pitch with some professional training - a perfect score on her NYSSMA level 6 (highest level) solo as a freshman - violin training since the age of 6 so very savvy to scores, etc,; and some dance training - (this girl has an OK voice and that is it), slim, etc. And yet the other girl chosen was short and a bit overweight - the directors deliberately chose to cast against type. Our daughter is Christian, sweet and not full of herself at all. Trust me, this is not just parental bias, a teacher I am close to at the high school totally saw how incredibly unfair it was as well and her opinion is fairly unbiased.
Sorry to vent to a perfect stranger on a forum, but it was terrible.
On point: I agree that the stage version (we had a student and adult mixed pit orchestra that did a great job) is a great play based on a wonderful ancient tale and should not be ruined by Disney by a feminist liberal agenda. Too bad.
We were excited about the film. Now, we won’t go. Disney will not get our monies for this film.
Sixteen years teaching voice and I have seen those kind of politics again and again.
And it was done to me so many times in school that I wrote my OWN opera, cast it, directed it and made all the costumes just to be free from political influence.
Fear not...Your daughter will rise to the top.
Amen
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