Disney supports homosexuality, pornography

Tek7 (Legacy)

Tek7 (Legacy)

CGA & ToJ President
I used to loathe Disney for the simple fact that they've stifled the development of animation as an art form in the Western hemisphere. Now I find that there are legitimate reasons for all Christians to boycott Disney movies and merchandise.

If Disney violates so many principles Christians claim to stand for, why are so many Christians buying Disney merchandise and paying to see Disney films?

NOTE: I don't want this thread to turn into a flame war. I deleted it once, then restored it because I feel that the parents on these forums should know more than our popular culture and mainstream media tell us.
 
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Claim: During the filming of the 1958 Disney nature documentary White Wilderness, the film crew induced lemmings into jumping off a cliff and into the sea in order to document their supposedly suicidal behavior.

Status: True.

Origins: Lemming suicide is fiction. Contrary to popular belief, lemmings do not periodically hurl themselves off of cliffs and into the sea. Cyclical explosions in population do occasionally induce lemmings to attempt to migrate to areas of lesser population density. When such a migration occurs, some lemmings die by falling over cliffs or drowning in lakes or rivers. These deaths are not deliberate "suicide" attempts, however, but accidental deaths resulting from the lemmings' venturing into unfamiliar territories and being crowded and pushed over dangerous ledges. In fact, when the competition for food, space, or mates becomes too intense, lemmings are much more likely to kill each other than to kill themselves.
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Source: Snopes.com: White Wilderness
 
The same could be pointed out about any organization in America that supports homosexuality or hires people who are convicted sexual preditors. I don't think its the companies that are the problem, it is the culture is the problem. Companies just bend to what the cultural norms are of each era. While Disney might be at the forefront, every large corporation in America is guilty of these same charges in some way, shape or form.

If we start something like a boycott, which I've seen emails on repeatedly (especially Disney, Ford, Intel, Microsoft) it is a fruitless victory except for the satisfaction that each of us knows we are doing what we feel is the Rightious thing to do. Would it hurt these companies, probably not in the current state of America. But if the Christians of this nation would unite and start a grassroots revival and turning back to God, I think the impact would be much greater.

Just my $0.02

Cory
 
Yeah, i've heard bad rumblings from over in Disney, but I never actually checked out exactly what they were guilty of.
 
I sry, no offence but I find this quite funny.
Disney is a business, their job is to make money and make good movies.
Dogma was a funny movie, Martin Scorcese is a great director.
And as for the director of Powder, everyone deserves a second chance. And I'm not even going to get started on Interscope and Deathrow.
To me these people arguing that disney is evil sounds like the same people who are protesting Harry Potter, and Kiss.
Disney can't afford to only make christians happy, because its such a small demographic.
 
Gandhi said:
Disney is a business, their job is to make money and make good movies.
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Well, money, anyway.

It's not so much that Disney sponsors homosexuality and pornography, it's that they do so while advertising a "family-friendly" image. Many businesses support viewpoints contrary to Christian values, but few surpass the hypocrisy of Disney.
 
Thaddius said:
Companies just bend to what the cultural norms are of each era.
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Are you sure it's not; The cultural norms bend to what the companies are feeding?

Also, check this out.

For example, of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations while only 49 are countries.
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As profits are naturally the most important goal, damaging results can arise, such as violation of human rights, lobbying for and participating in manipulated international agreements, environmental damage, child labor, driving towards cheaper and cheaper labor, and so on.
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When companies see children as an enormous market with incredible purchasing power, it leads to a lot of advertising and marketing targeted directly at them. Some are concerned at the effect it has as children, teaching them to be consumers and overly conscious about materialistic things, perhaps even at the expense of human qualities from an early age.
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I'm guessing u're against gay and lesbian families.
:p haha
I thought that was the new face of family values.
They still make family friendly movies, but thats only one branch of the company. I looked through the whole website and couldn't find where they claimed to be fully family friendly. I think Walt Disney Pictures make family friendly movies. But they also have touchstone and Miramax to make movies for adults. And ESPN for sports junkies.
Where's the hypocrisy.
 
Are you sure it's not; The cultural norms bend to what the companies are feeding?
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Biblically speaking, yeah, I'm pretty sure its culture that drives it. Look through history (not just from the Bible) and you will see that the culture shifts, and businesses of that age drive it. For example, the Israelites turned to pagan worship and a trade was deveolped of idol carvers who created and sold them to the people. Immorality is something that seems to be instinctual to man since the fall, and the devil drives it hard against the world. Disney, for example, is only trying to promote the new social norms. Open homosexuality, and as Savio so elegantly pointed out, that has (or is starting to become) a new acceptable form of family structure.

I guess the way I see it is that the culture changes, businesses that move on profit based upon what the culture wants pushes the changes. While I don't think businesses are the catylist that starts the change, they do play a large role in promoting it and moving it in the direction society as a whole wants to it to.


I'm guessing u're against gay and lesbian families.
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Very much so. I'll even step out and say I'm against any type of homosexual behavior. I'll never buy into it as an acceptable type of relationship of any kind.


Satan is alive and still currupting the morality of mankind. It is up to us to stand and fight the spiritual warfare in our minds and win our victories every day against the world. Social norms are not going to get any more plesent, only worse for those of us who hold conservative Christain values.

Cory
 
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U look at it as a christian movie, everyone else just looks at it as a good book turned into a movie.
Also with the success of Lewis's inkling friend Tolkins book Lord of the Rings being adapted to a movie, y not take a chance on Narnia.
 
Genesis1315 said:
So what happens when a company that supports non-Christian life styles puts out a Christian movie?

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/narnia/
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Likely the same thing that happened with "Lord of the Rings": Take a story with strong Christian overtones, replace the Christian themes with pagan themes, butcher the characters and plot, and make millions upon millions of dollars on one of the worst book-to-movie translations in film history.

/me dons flame-retardant suit
 
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Disney has extended company health benefits to live-in partners of homosexual employees (the policy does not cover unmarried heterosexual couples who live together). The Orlando Sentinel, 10/7/95; USA Today, 10/19/95; Daily Variety, 10/9/95
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Just this past year my company did the same thing... which helped to increase my insurance premiums by $10/paycheck, forcing me to spend money to support something I don't believe in. :mad:
 
Disney is a business, their job is to make money and make good movies.
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A businesses job is to turn a profit from the services it sells or products it makes. Its the job of the businesses employees to make the products or provide the services that are good for turning a profit. Whether the product is good (a good movie) is a subjective matter of the paying customer. If they determine it to be good or of value, they buy it, otherwise they go to a competitor or save their money.

I think the reason many parents buy Disney stuff is because the storylines are generally simple for children to follow, are good guys in the end come out the winner while the bad guy (if there is one) faces consequences and also they do no contain noticibly objectable content (ie...no swearing, no ses).
 
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