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You can tell a lot about somebody's politics by listening to the way they described this new legislation that was passed in Florida last month.

If you're a Republican, you might be calling it the parental rights and education law.

And if you're not, you're probably calling it something else.

Most people do know it as the don't say gay bill.

And boy, that has just angered the sponsors and the governor.

Mary Ellen Klaus covers state politics for the Miami Herald.

Well, I mean, it seems to me like it was kind of a masterstroke of progressive activists to label it that.

It was a brilliant way to take control of the messaging.

The original bill definitely prohibited speech, and that's how it got its name.

And then they changed it.

What was signed into law does prohibit instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation

for younger kids. It also empowers parents to sue public schools and teachers that they think

cross an ethical line when it comes to topics of sex and gender.

Unfortunately, that ethical line is pretty murky.

Right now, there's already a lawsuit against this, by the way.

You know, there may be an injunction before we know it,

and this bill may be just sort of done.

I think calling this bill don't say gay is a progressive masterstroke because that label

challenges you to pick a side, even if picking a side is anathema to you. In Florida, there's one

company in particular that likes to avoid picking sides, at least publicly, Disney.

Disney employs 80,000 people in Florida.

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