Well , that certainly take long enough . After weeks ofback and forth betweenWalt Disney Company employeesand thecompany ’s executive director — a tense exchange that includeda walkoutlast week — Disney just released a full statement sentence Florida ’s terrible “ Do n’t Say Gay ” Federal Reserve note , which wassigned into lawtoday by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis .
“ Florida ’s HB 1557 , also known as the ‘ Do n’t Say Gay ’ bill , should never have passed and should never have been signed into law,”said a financial statement released by a the Walt Disney Company . “ Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislative body or struck down in the court , and we rest attached to patronize the national and state organization work out to achieve that . We are consecrate to stand up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney kinsfolk , as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the res publica . ”
What exactly the party will to do achieve its “ goal ” of annul or happen upon down the legislature is still ill-defined . But it ’s novel that Disney has finally said something warm and assertive about the statute law , which bans instructor from discourse intimate orientation course and sexuality identity element in school .
Disney is finally firing back at Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill.Photo: Courtney Kiefer/Disney
Walter Elias Disney apply about 75,000 in the commonwealth of Florida ( many of them in its Walt Disney World Resort theme parks and hotel ) , have it one of the body politic ’s biggest employer . And yet , as news show of the bill began to break earlier this class , CEO Bob Chapek refused tocondemn or speak out about it publicly . Thatchanged in recent weeksas essentially the entire fellowship turned on himin a very public way , and this statement is , hopefully , the first step in Disney using its considerable resource and power to battle a broadsheet that is incredibly hateful toward the LGBTQIA+ biotic community .
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