Should Catholics boycott Disney?

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Why boycott? Just because there’s a gay character? Heavens to betsy, mustn’t have any hint of real life, must we?
 
boycott the company, I don’t think so.

quietly boycott certain programs, yes.
 
I understand. I’m not to eager really want to see the live action version. I don’t like the way the Beast looks and I don’t like Emma being Belle.

There was some things I liked with the animated version: example - I like of the mean guy the Beast turning good… softer.
This can be used in the whole good girl falling for the bad boy in other fiction instead of the guy staying mean and only being nice to the woman he loves.
 
The movie, at least to me, treated John Smith’s efforts to be an evil against Native Americans at that time in human history.
 
It seems like an idyllic pace of life sometimes.

They say, though, you can never be Amish unless you’re born into it. You can convert, and take on all the practices and trappings, but unless you grow up in it you’ll never fully be it.

Sort of like soccer. I enjoy watching soccer, but I’ll never fully understand it in the way someone from Europe or Latin America would. Or football and baseball. I enjoy watching football (and sometimes baseball), and probably have a better sense of it than a person from outside the U.S. would.
 
You’ve never heard of them having community telephones; walking to borrow the phone of a Mennonite neighbor; using taxis; getting rides from neighbors with cars; taking planes, busses, and trains…

They also buy electric appliances and convert them to gas operated - they do this with fridges, dryers, even washing machines in some areas. A lot of it depends on what the local bishop allows.
on_the_hill said:
It seems like an idyllic pace of life sometimes.
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Romanticizing. They have their scandals, problems, and foibles. I’ll take modern life with her issues.

Hand threshing as the Old Order in Lancaster does it doesn’t seem all that idyllic to me.

There are also varying shades of Amish. Not everyone is an Old Order member.
 
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I understand. I’m not to eager really want to see the live action version. I don’t like the way the Beast looks and I don’t like Emma being Belle.

There was some things I liked with the animated version: example - I like of the mean guy the Beast turning good… softer.
This can be used in the whole good girl falling for the bad boy in other fiction instead of the guy staying mean and only being nice to the woman he loves.
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If you are an adult, you can watch the Beauty and the Beast movie.

If you are a parent, I would suggest watching it first to determine if you want your kids to watch it. After all, that’s what PG means… Parental Guidance Suggested.

Motion Picture Association film rating system - Wikipedia

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the church hasn’t said anything.

I watched it on Netflix, it was actually quite good.

lefou’s character, a bit flamboyant, yes, but it was that way 20 years ago, you wouldn’t really assume he was gay, only because the producer said so, but if you didn’t know that, then it’s really not so drastic. a lot fo feminists will boycote it because they think it is misogenistic

the overall theme is quite good, especially the beast’s conversion and transformation in to a better person in the end
 
Many Catholics, I believe, would also consider Disney movies to be too New Age.
 
This is just one show(Beauty is a Beast) which is problematic for younger audiences. I thought the company also dishes alot of money into Planned Parenthood and promotes homosexulity as they have “gay” days at their parks. My wife likes Disney so its hard to totally boycott it, but I do when I get the chance.
 
If we boycott Disney, then we also have to boycott the Marvel and Star Wars movies…as both are owned by Disney. And with the pending merger in the works…20th Century Fox television and movie content would also have to be boycotted, as that is also now Disney…
 
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Some people can find politics in a glass of water.
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Yes but, why should the glass be half full? Surely our rights to fullness matters? We need new legislation that enforces and protects the fullness of the glass. If we are pro-full then that is what we should do.

Whose with me!!!
 
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If we boycott Disney, then we also have to boycott the Marvel and Star Wars movies…as both are owned by Disney. And with the pending merger in the works…20th Century Fox television and movie content would also have to be boycotted, as that is also now Disney…
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Disney is eating everything. That’s one hungry company.
 
Disney also owns ABC (American Broadcasting Company

Hard to believe they want Fox, thats all that is left.
 
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How do you plan to do this? Just curious.
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Well, it’s more of a pipe dream than anything else, I suppose. In the last few years I’ve developed some medical issues that actually do necessitate my remaining within civilized society. But had those issues remained dormant, I’d have taken my 401k money, bought some land in Wisconsin(I know, I know, hardly a desert! 😆 ) and set up shop as a modern-day ‘Desert’ Father. Despite my presence on this website, I am no fan of hi-tech. I only just got my first phone last year, and that was only because my friends all chipped in and got me one for my birthday, they were so sick of my lack of an online presence. I have no car, no television, landline, home computer, laptop, refrigerator, stove nor radio. The biggest tech item I have is my alarm clock, and that I need in order to be up for work on time. Believe me, I’m halfway there already!
 
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