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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/kfile-ron-desantis-disney-ron-peri-anti-lgbtq/index.htmlCNN
An appointee to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis new oversight board in control of Disneys special tax district called homosexuality evil last year and shared a baseless conspiracy theory that tap water could be making more people gay.
On Monday, the Republican governor appointed Ron Peri, an Orlando-based former pastor and the CEO of The Gathering a Christian ministry focused on outreach to men as one of five people who will now oversee the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the government body that has given Disney unique powers in Central Florida for more than half a century.
DeSantis signed a bill in February that allowed him to replace the districts existing board mostly people with ties to Disney with a five-member body that he hand-picked. The move to remove power from Disney comes nearly a year after the company spoke out against a Florida bill which DeSantis later signed into law to restrict certain classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity.
A CNN KFile review of Peris past comments found that he frequently made derogatory remarks about the LGBTQ community.
So why are there homosexuals today? There are any number of reasons, you know, that are given. Some would say the increase in estrogen in our societies. You know, theres estrogen in the water from birth control pills. They cant get it out, Peri baselessly said in a January 2022 Zoom discussion, later put on YouTube. The level of testosterone in men broadly in America has declined by 50 points in the past 10 years. You know, and so, maybe thats a part of it.
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Walleye
(30,984 posts)Coventina
(27,064 posts)Mister Ed
(5,924 posts)And tap dancing seems kind of gay to him?
I know, I know, it's all pretty whack. I'm just trying to understand what goes on in the fevered brains of these right-wing nutjobs.
NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)I guess they had birth control pills in the ancient world too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_homosexuality
Initech
(100,043 posts)dchill
(38,451 posts)Diamond_Dog
(31,926 posts)What a loon!
RKP5637
(67,088 posts)stupidity, and good riddance.
RKP5637
(67,088 posts)Takket
(21,529 posts)who understands the complex project management skills needed to handle budgets, plan for drainage, landscaping, roadways and other such engineering challenges, who will be a great asset to Disney and the Florida taxpayer on the board.
I hope Disney's project managers absolutely BURY these people in budgeting and engineering questions to expose just how absurd it is to have these people on a board they clearly have no business being on.
rubbersole
(6,662 posts)Then have gym jordan convene a special committee with deep state witnesses testifying how Disney is using furries to make groundwater gay.
dembotoz
(16,785 posts)blessed by the mouse and the church
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,786 posts)Tali-Disney-Stan will Snowflake Ron be creating?
Itll be stupid and cruel, Im sure
sdfernando
(4,927 posts)Not too far from Disney was an "amusement" park with the name of "The Holy Land Experience". It didn't make it and closed...permanently.
So as good ole Ben Franklin said: When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
Lovie777
(12,218 posts)Yo DeSatan ya need to check it out.
chowder66
(9,055 posts)MayReasonRule
(1,460 posts)A prune or two might help...
Think I'll start calling this my blog and basing my VPN server through Florida just to piss 'em off.
Come at me bro...
rubbersole
(6,662 posts)MayReasonRule
(1,460 posts)I'm in Louisiana.
Come at me bro...
rubbersole
(6,662 posts)..he's remembering his prom date.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,104 posts)maybe we should be adding estrogen to the water supplies of ALL US cities.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)That should make him very straight, rigidly so.
RKP5637
(67,088 posts)will fine you a hefty fine.