The Republican-majority Florida Legislature appears poised to pass legislation that would repeal a 56-year-old law that allows Disney to self-govern its 38-square-mile Central Florida entertainment empire, if the company doesn’t behave itself.
Tuesday's committee hearing to review the Disney-related bills turned into a culture war battlefield. Democrats complained they were disgusted by the proposal. Republicans countered they were disgusted by Disney's behavior.
That two of Florida's most powerful political entities are at odds seems unparalleled in recent political history. “We’re pulling the rug out from underneath the Central Florida economy because one business had the gall to stand up for the LGBTQ community,” said Smith. "The company that Walt Disney started was a beacon of family values. And that has now been perverted by woke mob of liberal extremists into a laboratory of gender identity, social experimentation in which our children are the guinea pigs,” said Toledo. “As a mother, I'm offended by this … and I'm offended by my colleagues that are offended by what we're doing and not by what Disney is doing to our children.
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