Posted on 08/07/2003 3:00:10 AM PDT by kattracks
(Editor's Note: This story contains hyperlinks to portions of the videotape compiled by the Christian Action Network, which some readers might find objectionable. The clips require Real One Media Player for them to be viewed.)
(CNSNews.com) - A Christian group this week launched a campaign against the annual Gay Days at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., releasing a videotape documenting what it calls an "orgy of depravity." The videotape depicts homosexuals kissing and fondling each other and engaging in public nudity, simulated sex acts and alleged drug use at Disney theme parks.
Every June since 1991, homosexuals numbering up to 100,000 have descended upon Walt Disney World for the Gay Days event, which is not sponsored by the Walt Disney Company but is organized with the entertainment giant's tacit approval, according to the Christian Action Network (CAN).
"I want to point out that this event is not called 'Gay Days in Orlando,' it's called 'Gay Days at Walt Disney World,'" CAN President Martin Mawyer said. "And as such, we believe Disney is responsible for all the activity that takes place under the umbrella of this event, whether it takes place on Disney property or off Disney property. But as you can see, there is plenty of offensive homosexual activity taking place within the Disney theme parks that would shock most parents and their small children."
The videotape released by the CAN Tuesday includes video shot by Mawyer and other CAN employees at the Disney parks two months ago, as well as footage posted on the website for the event, gayday.com. It shows multiple acts of alleged public lewdness and contains extensive and explicit nudity. While these activities were being taped, the Disney theme parks remained open to the general public, including children, Mawyer said.
"It's absolutely impossible to describe the depth of depravity we saw," said Mawyer. "Not only did we see men kissing men, but these shirtless homosexuals were twisting the nipples of each other and fondling the butts and groins of their 'lovers.' And all this occurred right out in the open at a Disney theme park."
The CAN plans to tour 24 cities in 12 southeastern states, showing the video to local media, church leaders and public officials. The organization conducted a similar tour in 1997 to display graphic art funded by the National Endowment of the Arts.
A spokeswoman for Walt Disney World responded by pointing out that Gay Days is an unofficial event.
"Disney does not sponsor Gay Days, it's simply a time of year when people come to Central Florida," said Rena Callahan, spokeswoman for the Disney corporation.
Mawyer disagreed, charging that Disney's refusal to remove its name from the event constitutes an implicit endorsement.
"Their denial rings hollow," he said. "Let's be honest. Disney would never allow an event to be called 'KKK Days at Walt Disney World'...Disney would use every legal muscle within their power to have their name removed from that event."
The CAN also issued a list of five demands on Walt Disney World: (1) prevent Gay Days organizers from using the Disney name; (2) post signs warning parents of the event; (3) arrest any Gay Days participant who engages in unlawful acts of lewdness; (4) warn parents before they make reservations at Disney-owned hotels; and (5) reimburse expenses for guests who are offended by Gay Days.
Callahan rejected the group's demands and stressed the company's policy of non-discrimination.
"We welcome everyone to our theme parks every day," said Callahan. "There are certain high-level ideas that we follow, the non-discrimination policy being the most significant."
Callahan also believes notifying families of the Gay Days event would be inappropriate.
"That falls under our policy of non-discrimination," Callahan explained. "Posting a sign about different groups of people who are visiting our parks could be perceived as discrimination, and we're not going to indulge in that kind of practice."
Rev. Lou Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, faulted Callahan's logic with regard to discrimination. Banning the homosexual event would not amount to discrimination, Sheldon said, because sexual preference is not comparable to race or sex.
"This isn't an issue of discrimination; it's an issue of discernment. Homosexuality definitely is a social disorder. It is not genetic, it is acquired," Sheldon said. "So you need to be discerning about what is appropriate for children and what is morally right and what is morally wrong, and so I would agree that you'd need to have a warning."
According to Callahan and the Walt Disney World website, all theme park guests are required to wear shirts and shoes at all times. But the video depicted numerous shirtless and nude men embracing each other and engaging in simulated sex acts in public areas.
"Why they have one policy for one part of the year and another policy for Gay Days is quite obvious: Disney is making upwards of $15 million per year on this event," Mawyer said.
Callahan insisted that the park's dress code is enforced every day of the year, including during Gay Days.
"If we see someone who's dressed inappropriately or is not wearing a shirt or shoes, we would certainly approach them on that," she said, noting that she has not seen the CAN's video.
Mawyer also claimed that while he was recording at the Pleasure Island theme park, he was approached by Disney security and told to stop videotaping. He refused, and the Disney employees called the Orange County (Florida) Sheriff's office to have him arrested.
The video also featured an interview with a Florida family whose opinion of Disney was changed by a Gay Days-related incident. While riding in the family vehicle on Interstate 4 in central Florida, Michelle Dykstra and her 12 year-old brother Jordan saw a pornographic movie playing on the television screens of a Disney Cruise Line bus driving alongside the Dykstra vehicle.
According to Michelle Dykstra, her brother now thinks "Disney is dirty," and the family is upset that Disney has not yet apologized for the incident.
Sheldon believes the clean-cut, conservative image that company founder Walt Disney fostered at his theme parks has been replaced with a new image.
"The name Disney means something different today than it did 20 years ago," Sheldon explained. "As long as Walt Disney owned the company and his family, they had a policy at Disneyland that this didn't happen. But when [Disney Chairman Michael] Eisner came in and Disneyland was sold to a different group, they changed the moral standard."
Disney once enforced strict policies against homosexual behavior, such as same-sex dancing, in its theme parks. The company was forced to change its policy in 1984, when an Orange County (California) Superior Court judge found that Disney had wrongfully discriminated against two homosexual men who were ejected from the company's Disneyland theme park in Anaheim for dancing together.
See Earlier Story:
Group Plans to Show Disney Stockholders 'Gay Day' Video (Feb. 18, 2002)
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Wife, kids and father-in-law were there a few years back and stumbled ly into the festivities.
My kids, twelve and ten at the time, were grossed out. Diz gave them their money back.
I have a relative (blade) who worked there (dancer). Yep: steaming cauldron of hummasexiality, says he, 24/7/365.25
It is so saad to see the image that he worked all his life to attain for his company be trashed by the homosexuals and their sick agenda.
And Captain Renault declares, "I am shocked, shocked, to see that there's gambling going on in here."
Just makes me want to sing .... "A hunk, a hunk of burning love ..... "
O'Reilly?? Why would he care about this? He's all for the homosexuals from what I've heard.
At least that's what he seemed to be telling Rosie during her interview.
I guess he draws the line at grown men having sex in front of small children in a public venue.
Disney is known as the most protective company in show-biz when it comes to the Disney name. If they didn't approve, the Gay Days company would have been nuked out of existence
Poor Walt. Had he known this was coming he would have ordered the studio and theme parks burned to the ground at his death. Michael Eisner is a pig.
Fortunately, Euro-Disney is being devastated by the US boycott of France and the decline in tourism. I never thought I'd say this, but I hope the company disappears from the face of the Earth. The sooner the better.
I loved the guy from Gay Days.com whose last name was Manley and the other guy whose last name is Swallow. It's not possible to make this stuff up.
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The Walt Disney Company's newest animated film is "Finding Nemo" and features homosexual activist Ellen DeGeneres as the voice of Dory, one of the fish in the story. Disney's animation department has long been controlled by homosexuals.The Disney Company's latest animated film is "Finding Nemo," a story about a father fish's search for his lost son. Writer-director Andrew Stanton says he wrote the Dory part specifically for DeGeneres after watching an episode of her defunct TV show "Ellen" back in 1998.
The Advocate, a homosexual magazine interviewed "Lilo & Stitch" co-director Dean DeBlois in its July 9, 2002 issue. DeBlois discussed how he put homosexual messages into this animated film-including cross-dressing. One of the cartoon characters wears a wig and pretends to be a woman.
Note what they say about "discrimination". They daren't offend or turn off homosexuals, they pay good money, they have a host of homo-agenda lawyers ready to sue at the drop of hat, and Disney has a huge proportion of homosexuals in their employ. They are without doubt aggressively pursuing the homo-nazi agenda.
Of course, they don't mind discriminating against normal families.
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