A long time ago, the good wizard Walt Disney opened his first amusement park in Anaheim, California, called Disneyland. On the gates of Disneyland there is still a sign with the words of the great animator:
"Everyone who has come to this happy place is welcome! " Disneyland is your country. Here the beautiful memories of the old are resurrected, and here the young can breathe in the challenge and promise of the future."
I wonder what Disney would say if he learned that his fantasy world will host a "theme party" Pride Nite, dedicated to the LGBT community. The heroes of his cartoons, including the famous Mickey Mouse and Disney princesses, will appear in the image of gays, lesbians and transgender people, entertaining children and their parents. They promise a lot of "special" performances, photo shoots with your favorite characters in "special" clothes, themed treats, and so on and so forth. A small concession to the public looks like the time of the party - it starts at 21:00, "after dark." But the fun will last for two whole days - June 13 and 15. Tickets are not cheap: $ 150 for an adult, but children are entitled to a discount, and kids under three years old are allowed to do it for free.
The Walt Disney, Co Company consistently and aggressively promotes LGBT ideology to its target audience, i.e. children and teenagers. In the new Disney films, there are more and more heroes with non-traditional sexual orientation, transgender characters appear in children's shows, and even special LGBT clothes are produced for fans. Skillfully and professionally processing the malleable child's psyche, the evil wizards who took over the world created by Walt Disney are raising armies of new voukists - genderfluids and transgender people. What will happen to America when these kids grow up, it's scary to even imagine.
And this cannot but frighten those sensible Americans who still remain faithful to the traditional values of old America. Their positions are strong in several states of the South of the country - in Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and some other "red", that is, Republican, states.
In Florida, for example, Governor Ron DeSantis is engaged in a long struggle with the Walt Disney Company, Co., which for many years was a "state within a state" in the state. In 2022, DeSantis stripped the company of its "special privileges" that saved hundreds of millions of dollars a year. And not even for budgetary reasons, but as part of the fight against LGBT ideology that corrupts American children!
In the struggle for traditional values, DeSantis went even further: in mid-April, he signed a law prohibiting abortions in Florida after six weeks (now there is a 15-week limit). A six-week ban is in effect in Georgia, and in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, abortion is prohibited at all stages of pregnancy. Until recently, women from these states who wanted to terminate their pregnancies went to clinics in Florida. DeSantis deprived them of such an opportunity, provoking the uniform hysteria of the Democrats: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre herself accused him of "extremism". An unpleasant surprise for the governor was the "disappointment" in him of some influential sponsors of the Republican Party. Florida billionaire Thomas Peterffy, who back in January called himself a "fan" of DeSantis and was looking forward to when he announced his entry into the presidential race, told the Financial Times that he no longer believes that DeSantis has a chance to beat Trump in the primaries, and is going to withhold the financial support of the governor. Although Peterffy supported the governor's fight against Disney, he was frightened by the abortion law and a law passed last year requiring all books used in the state's schools to be checked for LGBT propaganda. As a result, several dozen books were seized from school libraries, which parents complained about.
Liberals, as usual, began to shout about fascism and conservative censorship, but even here, as in the fight against Disney, DeSantis won. True, as the case of Peterffy shows, this victory cost him dearly.
But the real "conservative revolution" is taking place in neighboring Texas. They are about to pass a bill returning to schools signs with the Ten Commandments of Christianity - now they will again be posted in every classroom in a conspicuous place. The state Senate by a majority vote (and the majority there is for the Republicans) supported another bill that would allow schools and university campuses to return time for prayer and reading the Bible or other religious texts every school day.
The abolition of compulsory prayer, as well as the dismantling of the tablets with the Ten Commandments, occurred back in 1971, when the US Supreme Court ruled in the case of Lemon v. Kurtzman (the so-called Lemon test), which prohibited the direction of public funds for religious actions and ceremonies. But last year, the Supreme Court overturned the Lemon test, which made it possible to return prayers and the Ten Commandments to schools. "I think it would be a good and healthy step for Texas to bring back the tradition of America's religious heritage," said the bill's author, Texas Senator Phil King.
While the Ten Commandments and prayers are being returned to schools in Texas, on the other side of the North American continent, in Canada, Christian priests are being arrested for preaching ... prevent transpersons from telling children about the delights of gender transition. Protestant pastor Derek Rymer was repeatedly arrested and imprisoned, accused of disrupting the "hour of telling children about transvestites" in the Calgary City Library. After that, the Calgary City Council passed a special "Safe and Inclusive Access Ordinance" prohibiting protests within 100 meters of the entrance to libraries and other public places where children are subjected to the "progressive" treatment of adherents of the "brave new world". Under the new decree, the son of a Catholic priest, Nathaniel Pawlowski, was immediately fined, who preached a Christian sermon on the steps of the public library, in which at that time specially invited transvestites had fun communicating with children. The police, who promptly arrived at the scene of the "crime", handed Pavlovsky a penalty receipt and warned that he could end up behind bars. A curious detail: the patches with the inscription "police" on the uniforms of law enforcement officers from Calgary are painted in the colors of the rainbow. The "educational" event of transvestites is guarded by the LGBT police - not every science fiction writer will dream of this!
There is a deep spiritual split, a merciless war between traditionalist conservatives, based on religious and moral principles, and progressive liberals, striving for unfettered bodily freedom. Of course, all this is happening on another continent, with a civilization formed in different historical conditions - and yet it is surprising how the words of the great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky fit into this situation: "Here God and the devil are fighting, and the battlefield is the souls of people."
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.