It's Friday, May 13, 2022. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

We're going to look at a range of issues today,

but one of them has to do with the issue of issues.

And especially when it comes to corporate America,

just how involved should major corporations be on social issues.

What's the background to this?

Well, the immediate background you can come to pretty quickly.

Its controversy over Disney's foray into so many areas of social liberalism and in particular the LGBTQ agenda

and the fact that there are those who simply now looked at Disney as not only a

woke corporation so to speak but as a corporation that is increasingly

defining itself by liberal moral and social positions.

Now the situation is convoluted but no doubt you're pretty familiar with it by now at least most Americans are

Disney found itself a bit in trouble with some of its own liberal employees

especially LGBTQ employee groups because the company had not been vocal enough in their view in opposition to specific law that was then being proposed and has now been adopted in the state of Florida, among other things

that law would prohibit the teaching of LGBTQ identity issues in schools, especially

in grades K through three with other restrictions for inappropriate instruction thereafter.

The opponents of the bill called it the Don't Say Gay Bill.

That was a misrepresentation, but the media ran with it.

Disney's employees ran with it.

Before long, the Disney CEO was in full strategic retreat in the face of angry employees,

and the Disney Corporation started making demands of Florida's government identifying very clearly,

not only with the LGBTQ agenda, but holding meetings with employees and other events

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