Blackburn slams Disney for opposing Florida’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

Sen. Marsha Blackburn criticized Disney for pushing again towards the so-called "Dont Say Homosexual" invoice in Florida.
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn blasted Disney for talking out about Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Homosexual” invoice, arguing that the leisure firm’s involvement indicated how “woke left extremists” are enlisting firms to pursue their progressive concepts. 

“Individuals go there to stroll the yellow brick street and have a day in fantasyland. They’re not going there to stroll on eggshells,” Blackburn informed hostJohn Catsimatidis on his AM 770 radio present, referring to Disney World in Orlando.

“I believe that it's one thing that it's a must to take a look at and say that is how the woke left extremists are utilizing firms to push their agenda,” the Republican Tennessee senator continued within the interview that aired Sunday.

Initially, Bob Chapek, CEO at Disney, didn't tackle the matter when the Florida legislature handed the invoice, which bans academics from discussing LGTBQ matters with college students till after third grade and dubbed by critics because the “Don’t Say Homosexual” invoice.

However Chapek’s silence was met with outrage from Disney workers and LGBTQ teams. 

Disney then got here out firmly towards the invoice a day after Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed it final week.

Blackburn accused “woke left extremists” of utilizing firms to push an agenda.

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Disney workers protesting the invoice in Glendale, California on March 22, 2022.

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The leisure large additionally not too long ago eradicated using gendered pronouns, like “women and gents, girls and boys,” whereas a prime government has vowed to make racial minorities and members of the LGBTQ neighborhood account for extra of Disney’s common characters.

Blackburn stated Disney, and different firms, ought to gauge public sentiment about how dad and mom are standing as much as “out-of-control authorities.”

She pointed to latest examples of that in Virginia — the place Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected as governor amid a heated dispute over training points, together with vital race principle — and in San Francisco, the place three college board members have been booted from workplace over their progressive proposals.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Schooling on March 28, 2022.

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“Mother and father are not looking for ideology pressured on their youngsters,” she stated. “They need their youngsters to be educated, not indoctrinated. And one would suppose that that is one thing that they might lastly get if they might lastly have an understanding.”