Franklin Graham, the NC-based son of evangelical preacher Billy Graham and president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has called for a Christian boycott of Disney over its gay Beauty and the Beast character and a new cartoon that features same-sex kissing.
Earlier this week news broke that Disney’s first-ever “exclusively gay moment” was set to make history in the upcoming live-action Beauty and the Beast and that it would come from Josh Gad’s character LeFou.
Graham’s post has been shared on Facebook nearly 100,000 times as of this posting.
Wrote Graham:
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.
It's a movie about a girl who falls in love with a buffalo, and they are worried about a gay character???
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
But it's not really beastiality, it's even worse. It pushes the toxic patriarchal notion that if a woman can just see past a beast & his beastly behavior, she'll be rewarded with a prince. It's a story that should be boycotted by all forward-thinking people, if you ask me. SO SICK of the Disney princess narratives.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
I'm not a fan of the Disney princesses, nor of what Disney (especially since the 50s, has done to sanitize classic fairy tales. The original tale of beauty and the beast has a lot of themes in it--self sacrifice (when the daughter sacrificies herself for her father), avarice (in the other daughters and their behavior, to a recognition that even a best can have a purer heart and motive than a man--the beast wasn't really a brute, and was possessed by more gentility and nobility than any of the men around him. It shows how one shunned by the world because of his exterior can learn to treasure human interaction as the treasure that it is, and can experience love (as can someone who can see past that beastly exterior. Even Disney clumsily tried to show some of this--the beast was not beastly in behavior, even at his worst, when compared with the men of the village, he was kind and ultimately self sacrificing (and he realized love means more letting go than holding on to someone). The princesses are not a good marketing strategy IMHO (nor are the good role models for girls), but at least they are women who can stand on their own compared with the predecessors like Cinderella or even Snow White who needed a prince to make them whole. Most get their prince anyway, but it is much more their choice than those earlier ones.
The Henagar Drive-In mistakenly scheduled Fierce, a film about the International Drag Festival in Texas. “When life drags you down, drag it up” reads the film’s tagline.
Well the theater’s owner, Carol Laney, has been dragged. Drag-oned that is – she’s said she thought the film was a Game of Thrones-style movie about dragons!
Apparently Laney was confused because the poster for Fierce shows a woman with dragons around her.
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
