Posted on 02/18/2002 1:28:09 AM PST by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - Walt Disney Co. shareholders this week will get the chance to watch a video of last year's "Gay Day" at Disney World in Florida, which contains "utter perversion, debauchery and outlandish behavior," according to the Christian activist group planning to distribute the video.
The Christian Action Network (CAN) will make the video available at the Tuesday's Disney shareholders meeting in Hartford, Conn.
The video, produced by the Christian Action Network from last year's Gay Day, contains footage of "homosexual kissing, hugging, fondling, and even relates the incredible story of X-rated movies playing on a Disney cruise line bus," according to the Christian group's press release.
Martin Mawyer, president of CAN, stated that he wants the shareholders to witness the behavior that occurs each year at Disney World.
CAN spokesman Phillip Vaught added that Disney's image as a family-friendly resort is tarnished each year when it hosts Gay Day.
"It's a problem because [Disney] bills themselves as a family retreat," Vaught said. "A lot of people save up a lot of money to go down there and are pretty shocked when they go during [Gay Day] to see what happens."
The Walt Disney Co. did not return phone calls requesting an interview.
Doug Swallow, the founder of Gay Day, said when the event began in 1991, it caused a lot of controversy; but the controversy has since died down.
"They have tried this so many times, that it is a dead horse issue as far as Disney is concerned," Swallow said. "No one else cares, but evidently they do."
Swallow said he thinks the video produced by the Christian Action Network should be shown because there is nothing in it that should be deemed offensive.
"I really think they ought to show it, and if a shareholder wants to watch it, let them watch it. It doesn't matter," Swallow said. "There is nothing that goes on in the park that anyone can object to, and as a shareholder, the fact that people spent money while they were there is more important than any other issue."
Gay Day is scheduled for June 1 this year.
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Doug Swallow? Please.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Members of a Christian activist group will try to show shareholders at The Walt Disney Co.'s annual meeting next week a video of gays and lesbians at Walt Disney World during Gay Days. The goal is to show shareholders footage of members of the same sex holding hands, kissing and cuddling during the annual festivities, said Phillip Vaught, executive director of the Forest, Va.-based Christian Action Network. Walt Disney World doesn't sponsor Gay Days, although many of its events are held on its property. "I don't think shareholders realize what goes on down there at that ...
11797500 posted on 2/12/02 5:03 PM central by Oldeconomybuyer
This is just too easy............
Translation: "This is a noose around our homosexual necks, and we know it".
He's so sure. He knows everything that takes place during gay day so he knows nothing outlandish or obscene occured. Riiiiight....
Eventually those who hold stock in "family friendly" Disney may be happy to see some public artwork like this Public Enema No. 2 - see reply #3 as "quote of the day" displayed there in their own private video showing. Especially if they consider what they're going to see at the next stockholders' meeting as "much ado about nothing"
Not so. The virus will 'die' (viruses aren't really 'alive' in the normal sense) in a matter of hours when exposed to open air. Besides, there is nothing about using a bathroom that would deposit the virus there.
-bc
No. Some viruses, like Hep-B can 'live' for quite a while in open air. But HIV is extremely fragile & it can't survive more than a few minutes - or at most hours under some circumstances - in the open. This is evidenced by the fact that there is not one confirmed case of environmental transmission (e.g., toilet seat). This is also why it can't be spread by coughing or sneezing despite it's (sometimes) presence in saliva. Even if it did survive in the open, you wouldn't get exposed to an infectious dose.
In other words, the Disney homosexual boycott is not about sex. It's about the way they wear their hair?
It’s a sad indictment of the Disney Channel’s values that the most level-headed, stable, non-body-dysphoric, non-twerking, non-sexting, non-drug-abusing, non-rehab-hopping actress to come from their recent network of teen stars is Raven-Symone, a lesbian.
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