The Walt Disney Co. has now dropped the vast majority of claims it made against Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in a recent lawsuit filed against the 2024 presidential candidate after he took action against them by revoking their special privilege due to the company coming out against the state’s parental rights in education law. The legislation in question, which was slandered by the radical left who referred to it as the “don’t say gay” bill, enabled parents to have a say in what their children are being taught in the classroom, especially as it concerns sexuality.
Many classrooms across the country have started to indoctrinate kids as young as kindergarten age with explicit sexual education curriculum that seeks to normalize deviant behaviors like homosexuality, drag queens, and transgenderism, which can leave kids confused and opens them up to be groomed by child sex predators. The bill in Florida helps safeguard kids from all of that garbage.
“On Thursday, the complaint filed by the company said that it will strictly focus on its First Amendment rights, claiming that the DeSantis administration revoked Walt Disney World’s privilege to self-govern in response to the company exercising its freedom of speech. It dropped the Contracts Clause, Takings Clause and Due Process Clause violations,” Breitbart News stated. “Disney had its special privilege revoked in the state after it characterized the anti-groomer law, which barred teachers from discussing sexuality with third graders, as a homophobic “Don’t Say Gay” law. This past April, Disney filed a lawsuit in Florida federal court claiming that the governor’s “hand-picked oversight board illegally voided an agreement that allegedly transferred certain powers of the company’s now-dissolved special district back to Disney.”
Here’s more from The Hollywood Reporter:
The development contracts in question were quietly signed by the previous oversight board on Feb. 8, the day before the state legislature passed a billat DeSantis’ direction reshaping the leadership structure of Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID). Under the new bill, the governor was granted the authority to appoint every member of the special tax district’s five-member governing body. The move was intended to retaliate against the company, with the aim of discouraging the company from speaking out on social issues.
The Breitbart report said that Gov. DeSantis moved to have the suit dismissed back in June, however, the Disney Co. fired back by asking to toss out the other claims due to the fact they were already being “actively litigated in the pending state court action.”
“In order to spare the inefficiency of litigating contract validity simultaneously in two forums, Disney’s Second Amended Complaint eliminates the four contract-based counts from this action,” the company explained. “The remaining claim—challenging the law reconstituting RCID with the Governor’s hand-picked [Central Florida Tourism Oversight District] Board of Supervisors as a retaliatory weaponization of government in violation of Disney’s First Amendment rights—can be fully adjudicated here no matter how the state court rules on Disney’s contract claims.”
While U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor rejected the request made by the company on Sept. 1, the new filing, which was completed on Thursday, seemingly dictates that the Florida governor “allowed Disney to drop its contract claims without prejudice, meaning they can be refiled, before the judge ruled on the motion to dismiss,” according to the report issued by THR.
Disney is in big, big trouble. They are desperate to prevent the brand from being further soiled, but not desperate enough to actually take a course of action that would work in restoring their success. All they have to do is drop the wokeness. Go back to making movies and content for families and children with stories that are well told and have subplots woven into them encouraging universally supported values. Boom.
Do that and audiences will flock back to theaters and snap up Disney + subscriptions like crazy. Continue down the road of wokeness and watch bankruptcy creep up behind like the slasher villain in a horror flick.
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