The Florida Family Association #fundie

The Florida Family Association #fundie floridafamily.org

How would you feel if you entered the Magic Kingdom anticipating a normal day of fun with your family only to witness thousands of same-sex couples holding hands, hugging, kissing and wearing tee-shirts that promoted their lifestyle?

LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender) activists converge on the Magic Kingdom the first Saturday of every June for an event called Gay Day at Disney.

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Just like activists’ attempts to gain access to youthful minds through LGBT characters in video games they also want to impact a captured audience of tens of thousands of children during the first Saturday of Summer Break.

Last year Florida Family Association hired an aircraft company to pull a banner for ten hours the day before and ten hours the day of to warn families about this offensive event before they arrived at the park on Saturday.

The airplane banner influenced mainstream family attendance at Disney during Gay Day to DROP between 50% to 60%. We believe this aircraft banner warning to families SPARED TENS OF THOUSANDS of children from the unexpected exposure to this coming out party. This airplane banner is the most cost effective manner to warn families before they:

• Expose their children to same-sex revelry.

• Spend hundreds of dollars on tickets.

• Pay for parking.

• Commit a day for fun now ruined.

• Purchase food and novelties.

49 comments

old comment by Aspergus

How would you feel if you entered the Magic Kingdom anticipating a normal day of fun with your family only to witness thousands of same-sex couples holding hands, hugging, kissing and wearing tee-shirts that promoted their lifestyle?

Well, it's really no worse than seeing thousands of heterosexual couples doing the same thing.

Just like activists’ attempts to gain access to youthful minds through LGBT characters in video games...

Why is it that every time LGBT characters are introduced in video games or t.v. shows, it's "indoctrination" to you? Oh, that's right, you much prefer to live your lives tuning out anything you wish didn't really exist.

Newflash: not everybody is exactly like you in every way. The media introducing a wide range of diverse characters is not indoctrination, it is reflecting off of the real world. May I also say that I find your lifestyle of sheltering your children from anything that contradicts your narrow worldview to be much more offensive than your offense at my "lifestyle" (which is truly a loaded word, because I'm sure my life is pretty boring to begin with).

...they also want to impact a captured audience of tens of thousands of children during the first Saturday of Summer Break.

No, they just want a fun day of being able to be themselves without having to worry about being bashed because of narrow-minded bigots.

old comment by Swede

ONE DAY, one friggin day in the whole year, LGBT people gather and have fun at Disney together, and you would begrudge them even that day? They should have about 10 percent of the days, as they are 10 percent of the population. How big a part of the population in the US are fundie bigots? Here in Sweden it might be less than 1 percent.

If I had children, I'd rather LGBT awareness gained access to their youthful minds, than fundy activists or right-wing activists. Actually, I'd prefer LGBT awareness to Disney's commercialism.

Before I spent hundreds of dollars on a trip to Disney, I would check out the activity there that day. I bet there is info about the LGBT Saturday somewhere on the net. Anyway; my day would not have been ruined by people sharing their love with the world. Fundie hatred on the other hand...

old comment by Doubting Thomas

I'm betting that most people intent on visiting Disneyland probably didn't even see the plane & banner. And those who did probably didn't care. Think about it, after buying airline tickets and hotel rooms for a family of four, and perhaps buying tickets to Disneyworld online in advance, you think someone's going to see that plane and say, "Well, sorry kids, we have to go back home because Disneyworld is overrun with gay people."

I also love how their site claims that there was very low attendance at Disneyworld that day, but looking at the pictures it looks like there were quite a few people there. Especially in one picture of the gay people where there are numerous people walking around in the background. Makes me wonder how many pictures of crowds they didn't use on their page. "Traditional Family" attendance may have been down, but there were a lot of non-traditional families to make up for it.

old comment by Tina

Heh, I was at Disneyland one time when my birthday happened to fall on Gay Day. You wouldn't even know what it was if you weren't already aware of it. Their shirts promote their lifestyle?? They wear plain red shirts. That's it. Since when does red promote anything? The couples sometimes held hands, but I didn't even see so much as a kiss happen. They act no different than straight couples, I don't see them make out at Disneyland much, either.

The only thing that sucked about it being Gay Day was that cute girls were checking me out, and I couldn't do anything about it since I was there with family, and I'm not out to most of them for various personal reasons. XD

old comment by Philbert McAdamia

How would you feel if you entered the Magic Kingdom anticipating a normal day of fun with your family only to witness thousands of bug-eyed religious fanatics, each one the only True Christian in the whole place, waving bibles, shouting how much they hate and fear everything, and wearing crosses that promote their lifestyle?

WTF are fundies doing at Disneyland in the first place? Shouldn't they be at one of those BibleLand or Dinosaur untruth parks? Or church, for Christ's sake?

BTW, as far as Disneyland Anaheim - Thursday is their "slow" day, if you're planning to go. Not by a whole lot, but the lines are somewhat shorter. I used to work there. *Clue - it's only "The Happiest Place on Earth" for the visitors. Employees do not wear the "Pixie Dust" for long. It's just a J - O - B.

Also - do these people have any idea how many gay people work for Disney? If not for them, I suspect the places would not be nearly so fabulous as they are.

old comment by WWWWolf

> Last year Florida Family Association hired an aircraft company to pull a banner for ten hours the day before and ten hours the day of to warn families about this offensive event before they arrived at the park on Saturday. [...] We believe this aircraft banner warning to families SPARED TENS OF THOUSANDS of children from the unexpected exposure to this coming out party.

Or you could have spent the money on actual humanitarian aid that might have helped people with real problems.

Instead of doing something that doesn't change the current state of being (in other words, you just ensured that people who are ignorant of the existence of gay people remain ignorant of the existence of gay people for time being) and will inevitably fail in the future (gosh, people keep running into gay people later in their lives, what are the odds?)

Don't donate to Christian charities unless they can demonstrate that they spend the money on causes that actually have any kind of a real effect. These people seem to have a rather weird way of defining success.