Walt Disney heiress Abigail Disney argued Florida’s new bill aimed towards protecting children is attempting to push history backwards.
QUICK FACTS:
- “If you were to erase every reference to gayness and gay people from the planet, which is sort of what the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill feels like, will children not become gay?” Abigail Disney said in an interview with CNN. “Do they need to be recruited and groomed, or are people just gay?”
- Disney went on to claim that the bill was merely “an attempt to push history backwards” and that it “denies the fact that everyone – conservative or not, has a gay friend or transgender family member.”
ABIGAIL DISNEY ON WHY SHE CLAIMS DISNEY IS BEING ACCUSED OF INDOCTRINATION:
“Disney seems like the biggest target because it’s so woven into families. So if you can create this idea that somebody’s in there trying to indoctrinate your child, my goodness, the paranoid imagination can run circles with that.”
BACKGROUND:
- Disney has also claimed that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his supporters are homophobic, saying the bill was an attempt to ‘erase gayness and gay people from the planet’.
- “The thing that Disney stands for more than anything in every film and especially in the animation where there’s a gay character or not is love and acceptance and family and joy,” Disney said.
- The Parental Rights in Education bill, which passed the Republican-controlled state legislature this month and then signed by DeSantis last week, will become law from July 1, and teachers who do not abide by its regulations can be sued by parents.
