House Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) wrote in a letter to Disney CEO Bob Chapek he will fight to rescind Mickey Mouse’s copyright renewal over the megacorporation’s LGBT campaign.
Banks wrote to Chapek as the Mickey Mouse copyright will expire on January 1, 2024. Given Disney’s opposition to Gov. Ron Desantis’s Parental Rights in Education Act, and its push to include as “many, many many LGBTQIA characters in its stories,” he cannot support an extension of its copyrights.
Banks explained that Congress had repeatedly extended Disney’s copyright due to intense lobbying from Disney. Now, Disney could lose its copyright renewal when Republicans are slated to hold the House majority after the 2022 midterm elections.
Read the full article. Banks last appeared on JMG when he falsely claimed to be on the Capitol riot committee in letters to federal agencies seeking information to be turned over to the committee.
This is what the party of small government wants. Complete control over everything. Complete control over people from forced birth to what is indoctrinated to them in conservative run public schools, to what people can do in the bedrooms and this their genitals, to what businesses can do or say. That is freedom, right? Isn’t that why the maga crowd refused to wear masks because it took away their freedoms? But telling restricting what you can read, say, watch, and what sex you can have along with who you can marry due to the church doctrine is pure freedom. Not for me.
Next year, the woke Disney lobbyists will ask Congress to extend Micky Mouse’s trademark.
Parents and political groups lodged complaints against nearly 1,600 books in more than 700 libraries and library systems across the country in 2021, a new record of conservative activism that largely targeted tomes involving race, gender and the LGBTQ community, a new report has found.
The American Library Association (ALA) said in its annual assessment that twice as many “challenges” to books were made over the course of one three-month period — from September to November of last year — than in the entirety of 2020. The 330 challenges in that period compared to 377 made in all of 2019.
“Gender Queer,” a graphic memoir of author Maia Kobabe’s life as a nonbinary queer person, was challenged more often than any other book, according to the group’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Five of the 10 most frequently challenged books are about the LGBTQ community, the association found.
Also among the books most likely to be attacked are novels that contain sexually explicit references or content, including “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie and Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.”
“We support individual parents’ choices concerning their child’s reading and believe that parents should not have those choices dictated by others,” said Patricia Wong, the ALA’s president. “Young people need to have access to a variety of books from which they can learn about different perspectives. So, despite this organized efforts to ban books, libraries remain ready to do what we always have: make knowledge and ideas available so people are free to choose what to read.”
The new push to ban certain books also came as conservatives focused campaigns against critical race theory, a legal theory taught in some law school and graduate school settings. Conservatives in states like Idaho, Iowa, Arkansas, Tennessee and Florida have approved legislation banning teaching of some concepts of race in schools, bans that are so broad that some teachers have warned they risk running afoul of the new laws if they teach about the Holocaust.
In Wyoming, a group of parents filed a criminal complaint against public library officials over sex education books. In Texas, a state lawmaker proposed a list of 849 banned books.
The true number of banned and challenged books is likely much higher than the library association could document. The group said its list relies on media reports and self-reporting by library systems across the country, and that as much as 90 percent of challenges to books go unreported.
— American Library Association (@ALALibrary) April 4, 2022
Complaints about books at public schools and libraries more than doubled in 2021, the American Library Association says. The association counted more than 700 complaints last year, the most since it began keeping records more than 20 years ago. https://t.co/KKYYtwm6mU
The massive digital billboards will be up for eight weeks in five major Florida markets, including Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach
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NYC Mayor Adams says he is putting up billboards in Florida to try and convince gay residents to move to New York City in response to the Parental Rights in Education law that makes it illegal to teach sexual orientation to K-3rd graders. https://t.co/QVuK0IyCma
New York City, where the Stonewall Inn riots ignited what many consider to be the birth of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, has long voiced its support for that community. Now it wants its message heard in one place, especially: Florida.
Starting Monday, Mayor Eric Adams is wallpapering the Sunshine State with digital billboards espousing New York City’s vociferous opposition to the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law, he said Monday.
The GOP legislation, which has drawn intense national scrutiny, bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, which the mayor called a “targeted attack on the LGBTQ+ population.”
The billboards, Adams said from City Hall, will be up for eight weeks in five major Florida markets, including Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach, and are expected to deliver an estimated 5 million impressions.
“This is the city of Stonewall. This is the city where we are proud to talk about how you can live in a comfortable setting and not be harassed, not be abused — not only as adults but also as young people,” Adams said.
The campaign started Monday and runs through May 29. Creative content was donated by major ad agencies including WPP Companies, WMLY&R, BCW, H+K Strategies and Kinetic, Adams said. Kinetic secured the ad space.
The mayor displayed some billboard samples as he made the announcement.
“The war. What is more opposite of music? The silence of ruined cities and killed people. Our children draw swooping rockets, not shooting stars. Over 400 children have been injured and 153 children died, and we will never see them drawing.
“Our parents are happy to wake up in the morning in bomb shelters, but alive. Our loved ones don’t know if we will be together again. The war doesn’t let us choose who survives and who stays in eternal silence.
“Our musicians wear body armor instead of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals. Even to those who can’t hear them. But the music will break through anyway.
“We defend our freedom. To live. To love. To sound. On our land, we are fighting Russia which brings horrible silence with its bombs.
“Fill the silence with your music. Fill it today. Tell our story. Tell the truth about the war on your social networks and TV. But not silence.” – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, addressing last night’s Grammy Awards.
For all those that say religious organizations are the true victims of the LGBTQ+ rights movements I resent this. Often I read how religious people or those on the right claim that the LGBTQ+ are pushing their lifestyle on others, forcing it down their throats I present this. Once again it is the religious, the church going Jesus lovers forcing their way on other people. In this case they go to where these people are living to harass them and tell them they disapprove of their lives and who they are. Way to win converts. That is sadly the way it is most of the time.
“We got the joy of the Holy Ghost!” Chanted a group of Jesus lovers as they made their way up and down Santa Monica Boulevard in the heart of West Hollywood’s LGBT Rainbow District as part of a Jesus March pop-up lead by Sean Feucht.
The Jesus Marchers gathered at West Hollywood Park at roughly 7:30pm. There was a small performance by a band and speakers acknowledged that they were about to embark upon an area occupied by LGBT people.
One speaker said he was artificially inseminated by a lesbian couple and he complained that he never heard the word Jesus for the first 16 years of his life. “There is hope for these people,” he said while pointing towards Santa Monica Boulevard.
The crowd, which also included small children, waved flags bearing Jesus’ name, they danced on the street, pounded on drums, and chanted, “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus loves you California,” while they passed Rocco’s WeHo, Mother lode, The Abbey, and made their way past Stache WeHo, towards Micky’s WeHo and then headed back to West Hollywood park.
For the most part West Hollywood nightlife patrons look amused. A video posted on Sean Feucht’s Twitter account captured some highlight’s from the West Hollywood Jesus March. The reception seemed to be jovial but some were not impressed and gave the Jesus marchers the middle finger.
According to his website, Sean Feucht is a speaker, author, missionary, artist, activist, and the founder of multiple global movements including Burn 24-7, a worship and prayer movement now spanning six continents and more than 250 cities; Light A Candle, a global missions and compassion movement bringing light, hope, healing, and tangible love to the hardest, darkest, and most isolated places of the earth; Hold the Line, a movement seeking to engage the church and young people to inform, educate, and inspire the next generation of leaders to stand for what is right in the governmental arena; and Let Us Worship, a movement across America gathering believers to worship and pray boldly for revival.
Feucht is also a singer, songwriter, and former worship leader at Bethel Church.
He ran unsuccessfully as a Republican in California’s 3rd Congressional District. Since running for Congress, Feucht has hosted large outdoor worship gatherings to protest government restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These events have seen thousands of people gather to worship.
Feucht believes “God’s divine design for marriage, one man and one woman, married for life,” reads a post on his website, where ads are pro Trump and promote My Pillow. He’s also anti-abortion, and believes “His plan for humanity, ‘male and female he created them,’ so he’s not too keen on transgender people, because it’s like, what would Jesus do?
There are hundreds of cities and towns and places in Greater Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim and these guys decide to March in the tiny half-mile enclave where gays feel a small amount of safety and freedom. This is an intimidation. it’s every bit like the KKK marching in Skokie. The press will sit on their hands rather than cover it for what it is.
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