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Tell Disney Shareholders: Don’t Endorse Ex-Gay Therapy
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      • Disney Shareholder Services
      • Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications (Zenia Mucha)
  2. Created By
    Michael Jones
    Boston, MA
About this Petition Petition Letter

Ex-gay therapies have been roundly denounced by health professionals. Doctors have called ex-gay programs dangerous, harmful, and disastrous for patients that go through them.

Yet one group is trying to petition Disney to recognize the legitimacy of "ex-gay" programs. These programs say that homosexuality can be "cured," and that gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people can be treated in order to repair their sexual orientation. It is bad science. And recognizing ex-gay programs on a company-wide level would be bad corporate practice.

Demand that Disney shareholders vote against recognizing "ex-gays" in corporate policies. To do so would send the message that Disney shareholders believe that homosexuality can be cured or treated. And to do so would fly in the face of decades of work done by the company to be a champion for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees and customers.

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Please Don't Legitimate Ex-Gay Programs

Dear Disney Shareholders,

During your March 2010 annual meeting, you will vote on a resolution that could add "ex-gays" to corporate-wide policies. To vote in favor of this resolution would send the message that Disney believes that homosexuality can be repaired or cured.

The group pushing this resolution -- Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays -- is an organization that champions treatment for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people. They believe that people can be "cured" of their sexual orientation -- despite the fact that health professionals and psychological professionals have routinely denounced "ex-gay" programs.

The American Psychological Association even went so far as to say last year that "ex-gay" programs could be harmful, and showed no real evidence that they could ever be effective.

Disney has built up a reputation over decades as being a champion for equal rights, with the company receiving high scores from organizations like the Human Rights Campaign for sound corporate practices that foster equality for employees and customers. Recognizing "ex-gays," however, would tear down that reputation, and send the message that Disney believes homosexuality could be "cured" or "treated."

I ask you to vote against this proposed shareholder initiative. There should be no special protections for "ex-gay" advocates at Disney. To create them would be to legitimate the idea that homosexuality can be repaired, which would not only fly in the face of scientific evidence, it would fly in the face of equal rights, too.

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