DeSantis: Disney bringing ‘California values’ to Florida in objecting to parental rights bill

After the Walt Disney Firm criticized the passage of the Parental Rights in Training regulation within the state of Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis advised Fox Information its executives are attempting to inject their “California values” into the extra reasonable Sunshine State.

DeSantis joined “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to react after the Burbank, Calif.-based leisure company – which owns the long-lasting theme parks in Florida – profusely objected to the regulation.

The regulation prohibits Florida educators from educating about sexual orientation or gender identification in kindergarten by third grade, with a provision that allows dad and mom to sue in the event that they allege faculties or instructors have been in violation.

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“This invoice is about offering safety in order that they know they will ship their younger children to highschool with out them being sexualized — and not using a college telling a younger lady, for instance, that she could actually be a boy,” DeSantis advised host Tucker Carlson.

“And if faculties are attempting to do issues that affect the well being and wellbeing of the children… that folks have a proper to know that and supply consent for it. So this can be a actual invoice that empowers dad and mom. It protects our youngsters.”

DeSantis surmised that the Walt Disney Firm solely started objecting after the “woke mob” known as on them to.

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He added that the corporate is predicated not in Orlando however in Burbank, and remarked that Disney is just attempting to inject their politics the place the individuals of Florida overwhelmingly indicated they should not be.

“For them to say that they as a California based mostly firm are going to work to take these California values and overturn a regulation that was duly enacted and supported by a robust majority of Floridians – They do not run this state. They are going to by no means run this state so long as I am governor.”

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In an announcement, Disney referred to the invoice by a nickname popularized by detractors, saying it hopes to see the regulation mooted:

“Florida’s HB 1557, also called the ‘Don’t Say Homosexual’ invoice, ought to by no means have handed and will by no means have been signed into regulation,” reads the assertion from Disney. Our purpose as an organization is for this regulation to be repealed by the legislature or struck down within the courts,” the Monday assertion learn in-part.

Host Tucker Carlson instructed Disney as an alternative redirect its sources aimed on the invoice towards bettering important areas within the metropolis of Orlando.

Fox Enterprise’ Lucas Manfredi contributed to this report.