Subject: ACTION ALERT: Email Disney!
From: James Yorton <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 12:49:06 -0500 (CDT)

[ Moderator Note:  This is a similar alert to one sent a few weeks ago.
But, this time Disney is asking to hear from ANYONE who supports their
gay-inclusive policies.  It sounds like they are really being bombarded
with a lot of hate mail or calls.

You can email your SUPPORT for their gay-inclusive policies to:

	[email-masked]

Please email NOW-- even one or two sentences of support.  It will take
just a few seconds!  Look what the Baptists are reporting:

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RPD 1407                             Friday, June 28, 1996 5:08pm

Internet appeal for Disney sent to homosexual groups

By Art Toalston, Baptist Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--An Internet solicitation of support from
homosexual activists for the Walt Disney Company has made its way
from a Disney vice president's office across the country.

The electronic-mail (e-mail) message, which originated in the
office of Disney Vice President for Studio Operations Reid Cline on
June 13, states: "If anyone wants to write to Disney to support
them in light of the Southern Baptist Convention's condemnation
yesterday, you may write to: Michael Eisner, c/o S. Buena Vista
St., Burbank, CA 91521-1010, (818) 560-2431."

Eisner is Disney's chairman and CEO. The e-mail is signed by a
secretary in Cline's office at Disney, Brad Bergman, with the
Internet address reading: [email-masked]

"We don't have any comment" was the response of a Disney
spokeswoman after the corporate communications office there
received a faxed copy of the e-mail appeal and a response by Bill
Merrell, SBC Executive Committee vice president for convention
relations.

Said Merrell: "It is yet another sad reflection of the state of
Disney -- that a Disney vice president's office must turn to the
homosexual Internet crowd to solicit support for the company's
drift away from family values and its buckling to the
homosexual-activist agenda.

"It is noteworthy that Disney cannot find support for its eroding
morality among the vast majority of Southern Baptists, other
evangelicals and others who adhere to the family values that once
made Disney great," Merrell said. "Actions like these continue to
damage the Disney name in the minds and hearts of countless
Americans."

The e-mail solicitation of homosexual support for Disney was
brought to the attention of Baptist Press by a Wilmington, Del.,
Catholic layman, Scott Stirling, who had been alerted to the
message on the Internet by a friend unsympathetic to the homosexual
movement.

It had been circulated by a self-described "lesbian, gay, bisexual"
student group on the Internet at Duke University, Durham, N.C.

There is no way to determine exactly how many homosexual Internet
sites and e-mail lists currently exist, according to Internet
watchers, but, Stirling said, "This message from Brad Berman is
likely circulating in all these homosexual e-mail chat groups
across the country and even internationally."

Stirling wrote a letter to Eisner challenging the e-mail appeal
from Cline's office, saying, "That you would allow your employees
to use company e-mail to solicit support for a broad political
agenda illustrates that Disney is willing to use its resources for
social change rather than upholding traditional family values and
virtues.

"I am a young, Catholic married man with one child," Stirling's
letter continued. "God willing, I will have many more. Because your
company is attempting to effect radical social change, I will never
spend my money on any Disney product or activity."

The Southern Baptist Convention resolution adopted June 12
encourages Southern Baptists "to give serious and prayerful
reconsideration" to whether to attend Disney theme parks and
purchase Disney products -- and to boycott Disney if it continues
"this antiChristian and antifamily trend."

The resolution cited five examples of Disney "corporate decisions,
which have included but are not limited to:" 1) granting insurance
benefits to partners of homosexual employees; 2) hosting homosexual
"theme nights" at its parks; 3) a subsidiary's hiring of a
convicted child molester to direct the movie, "Powder;" 4) a
subsidiary's publication of a book aimed at homosexual teenagers;
and 5) a subsidiary's production of the movie "Priest," which
"disparages Christian values and depicts Christian leaders as
morally defective."

The SBC resolution asked the Christian Life Commission "to monitor
Disney's progress in returning to its previous philosophy of
producing enriching family entertainment."

Criticism of Disney practices also was voiced last fall by
messengers to the Florida Baptist Convention.

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