HB 1557 was introduced by two Republican members of the Florida Legislature - Representative Joe Harding and Senator Dennis Baxley.
'Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. The statement read: 'Florida's HB 1557, also known as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law.' 'If the people who held up degenerates like Harvey Weinstein as exemplars and as heroes and as all that, if those are the types of people that are opposing us on parents' rights, I wear that like a badge of honor,' DeSantis said.ĭisney issued a statement condemning DeSantis' signing of the bill. The bill was mocked at the Oscars Sunday night, with co-hosts Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall repeating the word 'gay' as the crowd applauded. It will become law from July 1, and teachers who breach its regulations can be sued by parents.
It has also caused problems for Disney, which faced backlash from customers and employees for not immediately opposing the bill when it was first passed. The Parental Rights in Education bill, which passed the Republican-controlled state legislature this month, has been dubbed the 'Don't Say Gay' bill by critics who claim it bans any discussion pertaining to being gay in Florida schools. 'We will make sure that parents can send their kids to school to get an education, not an indoctrination,' DeSantis said before signing the bill. 'In Florida, we not only know that parents have a right to be involved, we insist that parents have a right to be involved,' DeSantis said at a press conference at the Classical Preparatory School in Spring Hill, Florida. Ron DeSantis signed into law Monday a parental rights bill that bans teachers from giving classroom instruction on 'sexual orientation' or ' gender identity' in kindergarten through third grade. 'Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed.' company said in a statement.Disney also issued a statement condemning the bill, weeks after it faced backlash from customers and employees for not immediately opposing it.
DeSantis hit back at Hollywood critics, saying he wore their condemnation as a badge of honor as they 'held up degenerates like Harvey Weinstein as exemplars'.The bill was mocked at the Oscars Sunday night, with co-hosts Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall repeating the word 'gay' as the crowd applauded.It will become law from July 1, and teachers who breach its regulations can then be sued by parents.DeSantis signed Monday the bill that bans teachers from giving instruction on 'sexual orientation' or 'gender identity' in kindergarten through third grade.DeSantis signs so-called 'Don't Say Gay' bill into law and tears into Hollywood elites who 'support sexualizing kids': Disney slams him and says 'our goal is for it to be repealed' after woke staff backlash