Jose Castillo, who is also running for Congress in Florida, said his employer’s decision to oppose the controversial Parenthood Bill, which has been called the Do Not Say Homosexual Bill, could be “bad for businesses “, as not everyone is a” furious liberal “working there.
“There is this misconception that everyone at Disney is just furious liberals and I think that can not be further from the truth,” Castillo told Fox News on Wednesday. “I have a lot of people working for the Walt Disney Company who contact me daily on social media [that are Republican]. ‘
The “strong conservative” also said that he was not “worried about my job”, despite his dissenting opinion from Disney executives. Castillo works as a manager at the resort.
“I think if I was fired for my views, I think it would send the wrong message to the Conservatives, that the Conservatives would not be welcome at Disney.”
He also said that Disney’s position on the bill could be “bad for business”, adding that “our goal is for the law to be repealed by the legislature or for the courts to repeal it”.
Jose Castillo, a Disney employee and congressional candidate, said Disney was “making a terrible mistake” in backing the “Do Not Say Homosexual” bill. “There is this misconception that everyone at Disney is just furious liberals and I think that can not be further from the truth,” he said on Wednesday. He argued that Disney’s liberal stance on the bill isolated conservative workers who “voted in favor of our state legislature” who approved the bill.
Disney CEO Bob Chapek has announced that the company opposes the Parenthood Bill, which has been dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
He argues that many staff members were in favor of the bill and the company’s push against its employees is killing democracy.
Only a “small minority in the Walt Disney Company that is a member of the LGBT community screams louder and is the loudest,” he said.
“The left is talking about democracy, but what about our democracy?” Castillo asked. “The people of Florida, many members of the Disney cast, voted in favor of our state legislature. These are the dual elected members of the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate who passed this bill, [and] sent it to the governor and, thank God, our governor has the backbone to resist companies like [Disney] to stand by the people of Florida, to stand by parents to protect our children. ”
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham suggested that Disney’s position could isolate Republicans from going to Disney parks and could cause conservatives to boycott the most magical place on Earth. Castillo agreed, saying that was why Disney needed its conservative staff to speak up.
“We need conservatives like me – I’m a candidate, I’re as strong as I can be to tell people that we have to defend our conservative values. And I will do the same in Congress. ”
President Biden on Wednesday launched “political attacks” on trans children from state lawmakers across the country, such as the Florida bill, “Do Not Say Homosexual.”
“Visibility matters, and so many transgender, non-binary, non-gender Americans thrive,” Biden said in a statement on Transparency Day. “Despite this progress, trans Americans continue to face discrimination, harassment and barriers to opportunity.”
Biden said that in 2021 and 2022, states had proposed “hundreds of anti-trans bills.” “Efforts to criminalize supportive medical care for transgender children, to ban trans children from playing sports, and to illegally discuss LGBTQI + in schools undermine their humanity and erode the values of our Nation.”
However, another Disney employee, writing under the pseudonym Ethan L. Clay, claimed that the company’s leaders had “surrendered” to the ideology of diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) and instilled a culture that compels employees to support the law to remain quiet. fear of control or termination.
“I urge everyone to ignore the resentment of Disney’s executive leadership, from CEO Bob Chapek to parking dealers,” Clay wrote in a blog post on Quillette.com on Tuesday. “These people are not thought leaders or cultural revolutionaries. “They are cowards who are being held hostage to the prevailing narrative and will run in whichever direction this narrative dictates.”
He claimed that the top leaders of the organization do not represent the “real employees of Disney Parks and Resorts” who are “as different as the country itself” and mainly want “Disney to be silent about politics”.
“The company’s efforts to use us as a bloc to advance its political agenda are intolerant, exploitative and deeply anti-Disney,” Clay said.
Florida Gov. Ron De Sandis Signs Parental Bill Bans Teachers from Giving Classroom Guidance on ‘Sexual Orientation’ or ‘Gender Identity’ in Kindergarten by Third Grade
He also said in a blog post that workers used “plenty of free time for domestic political action” during the pandemic lockdown.
‘THE [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] “The division within the company expanded by a staggering 633 percent in 2019-21, at the same time that almost every other division shrank by 25-75 percent,” said employee Ethan Clay.
At the same time, the fifth key, Inclusion, was added to Disney’s other four training keys: Security, Courtesy, Appearance, and Efficiency.
He said the initial four keys helped “Disney cast members tell stories about demographics, geography, ethnicity, religion and politics.”
“Every major event that has taken place in American society since Disneyland first opened its gates in 1955 has passed and the Four Keys have remained unchanged. And yet, in 2021, as the nation reopened from lockdowns to struggles and beginnings, the Fifth Key to Integration was added. Why now? Why not at all? asked.
Another employee wrote a blog post that came a day after DeSantis signed HB1557 into law, urging Disney to issue a statement publicly denouncing the law (pictured).
Disney’s LBGT employees have asked the company to take a stand against the bill
What is the bill on parental rights in education?
HB 1557 was introduced by two Republican members of the Florida Legislature – Representative Joe Harding and Senator Dennis Baxley.
They say the goal of the bill is to “empower parents” in their children’s education and make teachers recognize the distinction between “instruction” and “discussion”.
“What we forbid is to guide them in a certain direction,” Baxley said of how teachers lead students in a classroom.
Students can talk about what they want to bring, but sometimes the correct answer is, “You really need to talk to your parents about it.”
The bill applies to children from kindergarten to third grade.
It states that “teaching in the classroom by school staff or third parties about sexual orientation or gender identity may not exist”.
It also requires regions to “adopt procedures for notifying a student’s parent if there is a change in student’s services or monitoring related to the student’s mental, emotional or physical health or well-being”, which LGBTQ advocates advocate will could lead to addressing their parents without the knowledge or consent of the student.
Voted on March 8, with a vote of 22-17. The state legislature approved the bill late last month. DeSantis signed it into law on March 28 and will take effect on July 1.
He said that “Florida was the last glass” and that “Disney has been rotting inside for quite some time”.
On March 2, the company began talking about the “inclusion for all” position, after employees asked the company to take a position on the bill. By March 7, Disney CEO Bob Chapek acknowledged the “frustration” of LGBT workers and said the company “stood by them” but would not enter the battlefield.
However, a day after the bill was passed on March 8, Chapek announced that he would meet with Florida Gov. Ron DeSadis to oppose the bill.
“I understand that our initial approach, no matter how well-intentioned, did not get the job done,” he said at the time.
“It’s unbelievable that a company – especially a company with a family-friendly content – would go against the logic that sex is not appropriate for a six-year-old in a public school,” Clay wrote in a blog post. of.
Yesterday, DeSantis criticized a Disney executive for violating its Parental Education Act – while mooring their cruise ships in the Dominican Republic – a country that bans gay marriage and forgives discrimination against homosexuals.
“You have to wonder why it is the hill to die for the transgender to be introduced in the kindergarten or the ideology of gender to be awakened in the second grade. “Why is this hill for you to die for?” he asked in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tuesday night.
“In the meantime, if we had passed a bill banning talk of Uyghur abuse in China, Disney would have supported that legislation. “They will not say a word about it,” the Republican governor continued, earning a laugh from Carlson.
“So it’s just a weird manifestation of their corporate values that they’re really doing Disney, Tucker, cruising in the Dominican nation, which is really criminalizing homosexuality,” said DeSantis, referring to Dominican Republic laws prohibiting same-sex marriage. and discriminate against homosexuals.
“Well, it’s fine that they do it and make their pockets, they make their pockets fine from the CCP and all the atrocities that take place there,” he said, referring to the Chinese Communist Party, which the company thanked. .
