The once proud Walt Disney Company has been hit hard by backlash to their woke leftist actions.
Revenue is down, theme parks are near empty, and their movies have been bombing.
But now Disney just did something it has not done in almost 30 years, and the radical Left is going absolutely insane.
Conservative parents are claiming another win in the ongoing culture wars.
Dear heavenly Father, please give me strength
After years of Disney pandering to the woke leftist cancel culture mob, the mighty mouse has done something surprisingly conservative.
Something that it has not done in almost 30 years.
The surprising decision by Disney has given Christian parents some hope while driving leftists crazy.
Disney owned Pixar’s first animated series, “Win or Lose,” which is about “the intertwined stories of eight different characters as they each prepare for their big championship softball game — the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, even a lovesick umpire.”
In the series premiere episode, titled “Coach’s Kid,” which first aired on February 19, young Laurie is struggling with some self-doubt and anxiety while preparing for an upcoming game.
To deal with her sudden lack of confidence, Laurie decides to bow her head, fold her hands in prayer, and ask God for strength.
“Dear heavenly Father, please give me strength. … I just want to catch a ball or get a hit,” Laurie says. “I promise I’ll be good, and I, uh, won’t do that thing again.”
And that is not the only prayer.
In another scene, little Laurie prays, “Please help me be good. I’m gonna train so hard.”
The Christian Post reported, “The scene marks the first time a Disney character is portrayed offering an explicitly Christian prayer since 1996’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ and its song ‘God Help the Outcasts.’
That song includes the lyrics, ‘God help the outcasts / Hungry from birth / Show them the mercy / They don’t find on earth / God help my people / We look to You still / God help the outcasts / Or nobody will.'”
First openly Christian Disney character since 2007
WDW News said of the news, “Laurie is the first character to be openly Christian from Disney since the 2007 film ‘Bridge to Terabithia,’ which featured the children Jesse and Leslie attending church together and discussing religion on their trip home.”
While Christians and conservatives praised the move by Disney, LGBTQ activist websites were at best “uneasy” with a cartoon character praying.
PinkNews claimed, “The introduction of an explicitly Christian character is fairly innocuous on its own standing, but the context surrounding the show — and Disney at large — has left some LGBTQ+ TV lovers a little uneasy.”
“While Laurie’s Christian beliefs aren’t depicted as being anti-trans, and Christian characters aren’t incongruous with trans characters — of course, someone can be both religious and transgender — some viewers feel the two conjunctive decisions are indicative of Disney moving back towards a more traditional, conservative worldview,” the outlet added.
LGBTQ Nation added to the concern, “The opening episode now introduces Laurie, whose first lines depict her praying to the ‘heavenly father.'”
The outlet ranted, “Her introduction comes as Donald Trump and the Republican party continue to terrorize the trans community and use Christianity as justification, all the while claiming that Christians are being persecuted by diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.”
The site also attacked Disney for “bending to conservative will.”
“Win or Lose” originally had a much more leftist agenda.
But Disney bowed to pressure from conservative parents who called for the removal of a transgender character in the animated children’s show.
One of the characters originally in the show, based on middle-school-aged children, was originally supposed to feature a transgender storyline.
Disney cut a scene with the transgender child discussing gender identity.
Left-wing activists attempted to launch a petition to have the transgender storyline reinstated, but it only received 8,300 signatures.
Disney, which is Pixar’s parent company, warned investors in 2023 that the company’s continued wokeness was presenting risks to its “reputation and brands” in its annual financial report with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Maybe, just maybe, the House of Mouse has finally seen the light.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
