Disney worker speaks about firm's opposition to 'Don't Say Gay' bill

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A conservative Disney employee said the company is ‘making a terrible miscalculation’ for opposing the just-signed Parental Rights in Education bill, and suggested Republican staff and parkgoers may boycott the famous theme park, as well as the company’s cruises and constellation of other offerings.Jose Castillo, who is also running for Congress in , said his employer’s decision to oppose the controversial bill, which has been dubbed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, could be ‘bad for business’ as not everyone is a ‘raging liberal’ who works there.The bill limits teachers from giving lessons on gender and sexuality to children in kindergarten through to third grade. ‘There’s this misconception that everyone at Disney are just raging liberals and I think that can’t be farther from the truth,’ Castillo said on  on Wednesday.

‘I have tons of people that are working for the Walt Disney Company that reach out to me daily on social media [that are Republican].’The ‘strong conservative’ also said he wasn’t ‘concerned about my job,’ despite his opposing opinion to Disney executives.
Castillo works as a manager at the resort.’I think if I were to get fired for my views, I think it would send a wrong message to conservatives, that conservatives would not be welcome at Disney.’ He also said Disney’s position on the bill could be ‘bad for business’ as it’s saying ‘our goal is for the law to be repealed by the legislator or struck down by the courts.’ Jose Castillo, a Disney employee and Congress hopeful, said Disney is ‘making a terrible miscalculation’ by opposing the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.

‘There’s this misconception that everyone at Disney are just raging liberals and I think that can’t be farther from the truth,’ he said on Wednesday. He argued that Disney’s liberal stance on the bill isolated conservative workers who ‘voted for our state legislator,’ which passed the bill CEO of Disney Bob Chapek has announced the company disagrees with the Parental Rights Bill, which has been dubbed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill He argues that many staff were in favor of the bill and the company’s pushback against its own workers is killing democracy.Only a ‘small minority within the Walt Disney Company that’s a part of the LGBT community are screaming the loudest and they’re being the most vocal,’ he said. ‘The left talks about democracy, but what about our democracy?’ Castillo questioned.

‘The people of Florida, a lot of Disney cast members, voted for our state legislature. These are duly 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 stand up to companies like [Disney] to stand with the people of Florida, stand with the parents to protect our children.’  Fox News’ Laura Ingraham suggested 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, stating that’s why Disney needed its conservative employees to speak out. ‘We need conservatives like me – I being a candidate, I’m being as loud as I can to tell people we need to stand up for our conservative values.

And I’ll be doing the same in Congress.’ It was a call mirrored by conservatives online, many of whom are calling for a total boycott of Disney products over the company’s evolving political stances.’Boycott Disney!!’ tweeted Brigitte Gabriel, the founder of grassroots political group Act for America.’We are waging moral war against Disney,’ Chris Rufo, a Manhattan Institute fellow and outspoken Critical Race Theory opponent, added. ‘We are directly targeting their public reputation. We are turning half of their customers against them.”We shouldn’t boycott Disney; we should reclaim Disney,’ conservative activist and ‘Stop the Steal’ lawyer Jesse Binnall tweeted.

‘If Marxist activists can take board seats on Chevron, then American shareholders should be able to kick out the nut jobs and restore the once great company to the ideals of its founder. Make Disney Great Again!’  President Biden on Wednesday tore into the ‘political attacks’ on transgender children coming from state legislators across the country such as Florida’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.’Visibility matters, and so many transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans are thriving,’ Biden said in a statement marking Transgender Visibility Day.

‘Despite this progress, transgender Americans continue to face discrimination, harassment, and barriers to opportunity.’Biden said that in 2021 and 2022, states had proposed ‘hundreds of anti-transgender bills. ‘Efforts to criminalize supportive medical care for transgender kids, to ban transgender children from playing sports, and to outlaw discussing LGBTQI+ people in schools undermine their humanity and corrode our Nation’s values.’However, another Disney