Pro-Family Groups Urge Disney to Protect Kids, Stop Pushing LGBT Agenda

As Walt Disney Co. employees staged an all-day walkout Tuesday to protest what they say is the  company’s insufficient response to a parental rights bill in Florida, the Family Policy Alliance and the Florida Family Policy Council called on the entertainment giant to stop taking sides on controversial issues and to protect families and children. 

“As a company whose primary customers are parents and their children, turning against Disney’s own audience for supposed political gain makes no sense,” an open letter from the Family Policy Alliance said. “Yet, in opposing Florida’s bill that supports parents and protects children from sexualization, that is exactly what Disney has done.” 

Florida has been at the center of a national debate since its legislature passed HB 1577, the Parental Rights in Education bill, which prohibits schools from instructing young children in kindergarten through third grade on sexual orientation and gender identity.