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The Daily Article

Disney Channel to release first animated show with bisexual lead: A different response to the sexual morality of our day

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

Christianity, Daily News, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR AUGUST 20, 2020

The Disney Channel will release its first animated show with a bisexual lead character. Today's podcast tells this story, then we examine four cultural snapshots, consider three explanations, and focus on a path to cultural renewal through God's transforming grace.

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This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians.

0:07.8

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0:14.7

Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

0:19.5

I'm old enough to remember when Disney and family were synonymous. Walt Disney said

0:25.1

our greatest national resource is the minds of our children. He also noted, the most important

0:31.3

thing is family. If you can keep the family together, that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families.

0:39.2

That's what we hope to do. I wonder what he would think about the announcement by the Disney

0:43.7

channel that its animated series The Owl House will feature a bisexual teenager in the lead role.

0:50.7

The character will explore her sexuality while dabbling in witchcraft as well. The series creator

0:56.9

identifies as bisexual and says she was intrigued by the idea of creating queer kids in the story.

1:04.5

Another mainstay of family entertainment over the decades has been Sesame Street. Since it first

1:10.1

aired in November 1969, the show has helped Sesame Street. Since it first aired in November, 1969,

1:12.5

the show has helped millions of children, mine included,

1:15.9

learn about themselves and their world.

1:18.3

Over the years, the show has championed racial diversity

1:21.5

and its characters, and incorporated cast members

1:24.5

with special needs as well.

1:26.4

Now the show has featured a male character wearing a

1:29.4

dress. Its companion show Muppets Now included the star of a cross-dressing competition among its

1:36.3

celebrity guests. It seems I could write on sexual morality issues every day of every week. Today, let's consider

1:46.4

this distressing but pervasive issue from a different angle. According to Gallup, 4.5% of

1:52.8

Americans are LGBT. However, U.S. adults wrongly estimate that 23.6% of us are gay or lesbian.

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