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06/09/2008 02:54
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The Walt Disney Company has come a long way since Mr. Disney passed
away. That's not really a good thing however, considering the
direction that Disney has gone. They have become more "modern" and
hip to the new generation, but it has been a placating to a
generation of self. We have been manipulated cunningly to focus on
our desires through popular culture, do what you want, or in
Aleister Crowley's version, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of
the law." Our hearts are inherently wicked.
Jeremiah 17:9-11
Now Disney has become just like everyone else in Hollywood.
Disney's annual pro-homosexual bash
One News Now
(May 30, 2008) - The Florida Family Association is
alerting the public that Disney's annual "gay day" at Orlando's
Magic Kingdom is coming up soon. "June 7 is the day when
thousands of homosexuals and lesbians [and] transgenders will
converge on the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, to basically
demonstrate their passions, their lifestyles in front of a
captive audience of tens of thousands of children and
unsuspecting parents and families who will go to that theme park
and have no idea what they're going to experience that day."
That's David Caton, president of the Florida
Family Association, issuing a warning to those unsuspecting
families. He recalls what he viewed outside Disney's gates at a
previous "gay day" celebration. "We watched literally thousands
of people walking into the front entrance, see the large
gathering of gays [who were] dressed in their pro-gay T-shirts
and some in drag -- and [those people] just turned around and
walked out," he relates. Caton observed a Disney employee
handing out free passes to return another day -- and that was
about 3,000 in just a two-hour period, he says. According to the
family advocate, the annual event upsets many people, not just
Christians. "This is an event that is, on its face, very
offensive because they're in there demonstrating their same-sex
affection," he laments. "It's a party on their part. Most of
them hang out on Main Street; they hang out in the restaurants.
They want to be seen." Caton urges people to go to the Florida
Family Association website where they are given the opportunity
to contact Disney officials via email.
But Walt Disney began much different than it has become. We can
only pray that they begin working with God in mind. With the news of
the
promise to complete the Narnia series, maybe we'll at
least see some good Christian symbolism come out. If only they would
get into Biblical pieces and put their wealth and power behind God's
Word!
"Christians and pro-family advocates are especially
thankful for the Lewis novels, however, since it provides a
completely family friendly atmosphere and gives Christian
parents chances to relate the gospel to their kids."
In these days of
world tensions, when the faith of men is being tested as never
before, I am personally thankful that my parents taught me at a very
early age to have a strong personal belief and reliance in the power
of prayer for Divine inspiration. My people were members of the
Congregational Church in our home town of Marceline, Missouri. It
was there where I was first taught the efficacy of religion ... how
it helps us immeasurably to meet the trial and stress of life and
keeps us attuned to the Divine inspiration. Later in DeMolay, I
learned to believe in the basic principle of the right of man to
exercise his faith and thoughts as he chooses. In DeMolay, we
believe in a supreme being, in the fellowship of man, and the
sanctity of the home. DeMolay stands for all that is good for the
family and for our country.
Every person has his own ideas of the act of
praying for God’s guidance, tolerance, and mercy to fulfill his
duties and responsibilities. My own concept of prayer is not as a
plea for special favors nor as a quick palliation for wrongs
knowingly committed. A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as
well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a
supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an
affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.
Deeds rather than words express my concept of the
part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched
constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual
standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of
living action. This religious concern for the form and content of
our films goes back 40 years to the rugged financial period in
Kansas City when I was struggling to establish a film company and
produce animated fairy tales. Many times during those difficult
years, even as we turned out Alice in Cartoonland and later in
Hollywood the first Mickey Mouse, we were under pressure to sell out
or debase the subject matter or go "commercial" in one way or
another. But we stuck it out -- my brother Roy and other loyal
associates -- until the success of Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies
finally put us in the black. Similarly, when war came to the United
States in 1941, we turned from profitable popular movie-making to
military production for Uncle Sam. Ninety-four per cent of the
Disney facilities in Hollywood became engaged in special government
work, while the remainder was devoted to the creation of morale
building comedy, short subjects.
Both my study of Scripture and my career in
entertaining children have taught me to cherish them. But I don’t
believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion
pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and
I think no parent should.
Children are people, and they should have to reach
to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to
reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of
lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and
saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things
are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil
things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to
shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child
that good can always triumph over evil, and that is what our
pictures attempt to do.
The American child is a highly intelligent human
being -- characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager
to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy
curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the
grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult
life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual. In our
full-length cartoon features, as well as in our live action
productions, we have tried to convey in story and song those virtues
that make both children and adults attractive. I have long felt that
the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested
in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency.
Preaching won’t keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their
minds occupied will.
Thus, whatever success I have had in bringing
clean, informative entertainment to people of all ages, I attribute
in great part to my Congregational upbringing and my lifelong habit
of prayer. To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble
or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength
and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should
bind us together for a better world. Without such inspiration, we
would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish. But in our troubled
time, the right of men to think and worship as their conscience
dictates is being sorely pressed. We can retain these privileges
only by being constantly on guard and fighting off any encroachment
on these precepts. To retreat from any of the principles handed down
by our forefathers, who shed their blood for the ideals we still
embrace, would be a complete victory for those who would destroy
liberty and justice for the individual.
