'A lot of unhealthy effects': DeSantis-appoted Disney board member suggts tap water turns people gay

Contents:

• DESANTIS DISNEY APPOTEE SAID TAP WATER MIGHT BE TURNG PEOPLE GAY
• DESANTIS APPOTEE TO NEW DISNEY OVERSIGHT BOARD SUGGTED TAP WATER ULD TURN PEOPLE GAY
• DESANTIS DISNEY OVERSIGHT BOARD APPOTEE HAS QUTNED IF TAP WATER MAK PEOPLE GAY
• RON DESANTIS APPOTEE TO DISNEY WORLD SPECIAL DISTRICT PHED CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT TAP WATER MAY BE TURNG PEOPLE GAY — REPORT
• DESANTIS APPOTEE TO DISNEY OVERSIGHT BOARD SUGGTED TAP WATER TURNS PEOPLE GAY
• FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS TAPS EX-PASTOR TO DISNEY OVERSIGHT BOARD WHO ONCE SAID MEN ARE TURNG GAY BEE 'THERE'S TROGEN THE WATER OM BIRTH NTROL PILLS': REPORT
• ALL YOUR RICK PERRY GAY SEX RUMORS COLLECTED ONE HANDY BOOK
• DESANTIS DISNEY APPOTEE SAID TAP WATER COULD BE MAKG PEOPLE GAYRON PERI IS ON THE NEW OVERSIGHT BOARD FOR DISNEY WORLD, AND HE HAS SOME TERTG BELIEFS.OCTAV JON/GETTY IMAGA MEMBER OF THE NEW RON DESANTIS–APPOTED OVERSIGHT BOARD FOR DISNEY WORLD THKS THAT TAP WATER ULD BE MAKG PEOPLE GAY.DISNEY WORLD PREVLY ERNED SELF TONOMOLY THE REEDY CREEK IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, WHICH OVERSAW S OWN FIRE PARTMENT, WATER SYSTEMS, ROADWAYS, AND BUILDG SPECTNS AROUND THE THEME PARK. BUT 2022, AFTER DISNEY’S THEN-CHAIRMAN NMNED FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, DESANTIS RETALIATED BY STRIPPG THE PARK OF S ERNG POWERS.ON MONDAY, DESANTIS SIGNED A BILL THAT ALLOWED THE TONOMO DISTRICT TO NTUE, BUT STALLED A NEW OVERSIGHT BOARD NSISTG OF FIVE MEMBERS, ALL APPOTED BY THE ERNOR.ONE OF THOSE MEMBERS IS RON PERI, A FORMER PASTOR AND THE HEAD OF THE GATHERG—A CHRISTIAN MISTRY FOCED ON OUTREACH TO MEN—WH A LONG HISTORY OF MAKG HOMOPHOBIC AND UNTE MENTS, CNN REPORTED. DURG A ZOOM DISCSN JANUARY 2022, PERI SHARED HIS NSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT TAP WATER.“SO WHY ARE THERE HOMOSEXUALS TODAY? THERE ARE ANY NUMBER OF REASONS, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE GIVEN. SOME WOULD SAY THE CREASE TROGEN OUR SOCIETI. YOU KNOW, THERE’S TROGEN THE WATER OM BIRTH NTROL PILLS. THEY N’T GET OUT,” HE SAID. “THE LEVEL OF TTOSTERONE MEN BROADLY AMERI HAS CLED BY 50 POTS THE PAST 10 YEARS. YOU KNOW, AND SO, MAYBE THAT’S A PART OF .”PERI DID NOT SPECIFY WHAT KD OF POTS HE MEANT, OR WHAT THE PRE-CLE LEVEL HAD BEEN. BUT CHEMILS TAP WATER MAKG PEOPLE GAY IS A POPULAR NSPIRACY THEORY, PHED BY PEOPLE CLUDG ALEX JON. TTOSTERONE LEVELS MEN HAVE DROPPED RECENT S, BUT NOT BY ANYTHG CLOSE TO 50 PERCENT. REARCHERS ARE UNSURE WHY THE HORMONE HAS DIPPED, BUT THERE IS NO EVINCE THAT TTOSTERONE LEVELS AFFECT SEXUAL ORIENTATN.IN THE SAME LL, PERI ALSO LLED HOMOSEXUALY “SHAMEFUL” AND “UNHEALTHY.” IN THE PAST, HE HAS LLED LGBTQ PEOPLE “VIANT” AND BLAMED THEM FOR THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.IN ANOTHER ZOOM DISCSN, PERI PARED ABORTN TO HOLOT-LEVELS OF GENOCI.ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE NEW DISNEY WORLD OVERSIGHT BOARD IS MART GARCIA, A LAWYER TAMPA BAY WHOSE PRIVATE VTMENT FIRM DONATED $50,000 TO DESANTIS’S 2022 REELECTN MPAIGN. DESANTIS ALSO APPOTED BRIDGET ZIEGLER, THE -FOUNR OF THE NSERVATIVE GROUP MOMS FOR LIBERTY, WHICH HAS LED THE CHARGE BANNG BOOKS SCHOOLS, AND THE WIFE OF THE FLORIDA REPUBLIN PARTY CHAIRMAN.STATE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS HAVE WARNED THAT THE BOARD ULD BE ED TO FURTHER DESANTIS’S POLIL GOALS BY BLOCKG MOV AT DISNEY WH WHICH THE ERNOR DISAGRE. REPRENTATIVE RA HARRIS ED THE EXAMPLE OF DISNEY CHANGG SPLASH MOUNTA TO TIANA’S BAYOU ADVENTURE.“ARE WE GOG TO SEE BOARD MEMBERS VETOG PROJECTS THAT ARE NSIRED TO GO AGAST ANY ERNOR?” SHE ASKED DURG THE BATE OVER THE BILL MONDAY. “WOULD THE BOARD THEN BE ABLE TO PH A PANY TO CHANGG THEIR BS MOL JT SO THAT THEY DON’T MISALIGN [WH] THEM?”SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKRON DESANTIS IS CHASG CONSERVATIVE CLOUT AT THE EXPENSE OF HIS REAL CONSTUENTSMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/MARCH 3, 2023/7:49 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTEXAS GOP WANTS TO BAN BOOKS WH GAY CHARACTERS FROM SCHOOL LIBRARINO LGBTQ CHARACTERS AT ALL WOULD BE ALLOWED.X J/XHUA/GETTY IMAGTEXAS REPUBLINS WANT TO BAN PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARI OM HAVG BOOKS THAT FEATURE SAME-SEX UPL AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS, PART OF THE GOP’S CREASG ATTACKS ON LGBTQ PEOPLE ACROSS THE UNED STAT.THE BILL, TRODUCED THURSDAY, PROHIBS BOOKS THAT CLU “ANY TYPE OF ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL ATTRACTN BETWEEN DIVIDUALS OF THE SAME SEX; TRANSVTISM; GENR DYSPHORIA; [OR] TRANSGENRISM.” IT ALSO BANS LIBRARY WEBS OM REFERRG TO PAG THAT DISCS THE TOPICS, AS WELL AS ANY DRAG PERFORMANC THE LIBRARI.WE TOLD YOU THAT GAY PEOPLE WERE NEXT.TEXAS SB1443 WOULD BAN OM SCHOOL LIBRARI ANY BOOKS THAT HAVE CHARACTERS WHO ARE OF THE SAME SEX A RELATNSHIP. IT ALSO BANS TRANS CHARACTERS.IT BANS WEBSE ACCS WH THE ABOVE TOO.DON'T THK THEY'LL STOP WH TRANS PEOPLE. — ER REED (@ERINTHEMORN) MARCH 3, 2023 THE BOOK BAN WAS TRODUCED THE SAME DAY THAT ANOTHER TEXAS REPUBLIN UNVEILED A BILL THAT WOULD ROLL BACK ALL PROPERTY TAX FOR HETEROSEXUAL, NEVER-DIVORCED MARRIED UPL THAT HAVE 10 CHILDREN TOGETHER (NOT OUT OF WEDLOCK).THE MEASUR ARE THE LATT A TSUNAMI OF ATTEMPTS TO CRACK DOWN ON LGBTQ VISIBILY BY REPUBLINS ACROSS THE UNTRY. THE GOP HAS CLARED WAR ON ANYTHG “WOKE”—THAT IS, DIVERSY OF THOUGHT AND MARGALIZED MUNI—AND IS MAKG GOOD ON S PROMISE.IN FLORIDA, WHERE GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS PHED THROUGH THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, A SCHOOL DISTRICT BANNED 23 BOOKS FEBARY, CLUDG MANY WORKS ALG WH GENR, SEXUALY, AND RACE. IN AT LEAST TWO OTHER UNTI THE SUNSHE STATE, TEACHERS WERE TOLD TO HI THEIR CLASSROOM LIBRARI UNTIL ALL THE BOOKS THEIR LLECTNS HAD BEEN VETTED AND APPROVED FOR PROPRIETY.DESANTIS HAS ALSO VOWED TO FUND DIVERSY, EQUY, AND CLN PROGRAMS ON LLEGE MP, AND HIS ERNMENT HELPED GUT THE COLLEGE BOARD’S A.P. AIN AMERIN STUDI URSE.ON THURSDAY, TENNSEE BEME THE FIRST STATE TO BAN DRAG PERFORMANC PUBLIC, AS MORE THAN 20 SUCH BILLS MOVE THROUGH OTHER STATE LEGISLATUR ACROSS THE U.S. THERE HAVE BEEN HUNDREDS OF BILLS TARGETG GENR-AFFIRMG RE, THE ABILY TO ALTER THE GENR ON YOUR BIRTH CERTIFITE, AND MORE SCE THE START OF 2023 ALONE.THE MA ARGUMENT SUPPORT OF MUCH OF THIS LEGISLATN IS THAT IS TO PROTECT CHILDREN. BUT AS CRICS NOTE, DON’T SEEM TO BE ABOUT THE KIDS AT ALL. IT’S ABOUT FORCG CERTA VALU ONTO EVERYONE ELSE, OFTEN AT THE EXPENSE OF YOUNGER PEOPLE’S SAFETY.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE GROWG RELIG ALLIANCE TO BAN LGBTQ BOOKSMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/MARCH 3, 2023/7:30 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYAMAZON PS CONSTCTN ON “HQ2” AFTER VIRGIA PROMISED $750 MILLN FOR IT
• RON DESANTIS APPOTED A GUY WHO THKS TAP WATER MAK PEOPLE GAY TO OVERSEE DISNEY’S SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT
• 'A LOT OF UNHEALTHY EFFECTS': DESANTIS-APPOTED DISNEY BOARD MEMBER SUGGTS TAP WATER TURNS PEOPLE GAY

DESANTIS DISNEY APPOTEE SAID TAP WATER MIGHT BE TURNG PEOPLE GAY

Ron DeSantis (R) to oversee Walt Disney World’s special district, has a history of promotg homophobic nspiracy theori and once lled gay people “viant” and “evil, ” CNN reported Friday—as Disney ntu to al wh polil backlash om nservative lawmakers over s opposn to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Peri, who is among a group of DeSantis polil alli the ernor appoted to the board, suggted last year that “trogen the water om birth ntrol pills” may be a part of why “there are homosexuals today, ” he said virtual talk for his Christian mistry anizatn The Gatherg, posted to YouTube last January and rurfaced by CNN.

The basels theory that the ernment is behd an crease chemils tap water that n change a person’s sexual preferenc is promoted by right-wg provotrs, cludg InfoWars’ Alex Jon, whose repeated rants that the alleged prence of chemils has turned ogs gay grew so proment was featured on a le of mem and T-shirts. Peri also said homosexualy was “shameful... DeSantis and his Republin alli the state legislature retaliated agast Disney for opposg the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill by passg legislatn last month that plac ntrol of s board the hands of the ernor.

DESANTIS APPOTEE TO NEW DISNEY OVERSIGHT BOARD SUGGTED TAP WATER ULD TURN PEOPLE GAY

Sarasota school board member Bridget Ziegler promoted the “Don’t Say Gay” bill and her hband leads the Florida Republin party, which has donated $1. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appoted a guy who thks tap water will turn you gay to Disney’s new ernance board — and no, ’s not Alex Jon. “Why are there homosexuals today?

DESANTIS DISNEY OVERSIGHT BOARD APPOTEE HAS QUTNED IF TAP WATER MAK PEOPLE GAY

The theory was partially popularized by nspiracy theorist Alex Jon, whose rant about the ernment “puttg chemils the water that turn the igg’ ogs [and people] gay” went viral onle. But basels nspiraci about gay-ducg tap water are jt the begng of Peri’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.

Hear DeSantis appotee's anti-gay ments.

RON DESANTIS APPOTEE TO DISNEY WORLD SPECIAL DISTRICT PHED CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT TAP WATER MAY BE TURNG PEOPLE GAY — REPORT

Ron DeSantis’ new oversight board ntrol of Disney’s special tax district lled homosexualy “evil” last year and shared a basels nspiracy theory that tap water uld be makg more people gay.

“So why are there homosexuals today? The claim that chemils tap water uld turn people gay has gaed ground wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh ge mentator Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay. In the same discsn, Peri lled homosexualy “shameful, ” lkg to disease.

DESANTIS APPOTEE TO DISNEY OVERSIGHT BOARD SUGGTED TAP WATER TURNS PEOPLE GAY

“There are a lot of unhealthy effects of a homosexual liftyle, ” said Peri.

Peri has also said that LGBTQ people “don’t have a stake the future” bee many do not have children, and he lled gay people “viant. In one discsn, he lked homosexualy to the fall of the Roman Empire – a ge historil belief ocsnally phed by some Christian activists.

FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS TAPS EX-PASTOR TO DISNEY OVERSIGHT BOARD WHO ONCE SAID MEN ARE TURNG GAY BEE 'THERE'S TROGEN THE WATER OM BIRTH NTROL PILLS': REPORT

“Homosexualy was praised, ” Peri said. Peri’s appotment to the oversight board after a long-standg battle between DeSantis and Disney over the Parental Rights Edutn Act – which crics have lled Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.

Former pastor and DeSantis lleague Ron Peri thks homosexualy is “evil” and wonrs if tap water. Ron DeSantis' Disney oversight board, is beg lled to qutn for homophobic ments and the speculatn that tap water mak people gay.

Peri is one of five people brought on by DeSantis after ph-back over Disney's former chairman speakg out agast Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law. On Friday, a CNN vtigatn to Peri's background unvered a 2022 Zoom discsn which a wealth of anti-gay ments were ma by the new appotee which seem to fall le wh DeSantis' mpaign agast the LGBTQ muny. "So why are there homosexuals today?

ALL YOUR RICK PERRY GAY SEX RUMORS COLLECTED ONE HANDY BOOK

In the Zoom ll referenced above, Peri n also be heard sayg "There are a lot of unhealthy effects of a homosexual liftyle.

One of Ron DeSantis’ appote to a special district that will oversee Walt Disney World once amplified a nspiracy theory that tap water uld be turng people gay, acrdg to a report om CNN. Ron Peri, the CEO of The Gatherg, a Christian mistry, also disparaged homosexualy, llg “shameful, ” acrdg to CNN.

He also lked homosexualy to disease. Peri also said, acrdg to the KFile report, “There are a lot of unhealthy effects of a homosexual liftyle.

DESANTIS DISNEY APPOTEE SAID TAP WATER COULD BE MAKG PEOPLE GAYRON PERI IS ON THE NEW OVERSIGHT BOARD FOR DISNEY WORLD, AND HE HAS SOME TERTG BELIEFS.OCTAV JON/GETTY IMAGA MEMBER OF THE NEW RON DESANTIS–APPOTED OVERSIGHT BOARD FOR DISNEY WORLD THKS THAT TAP WATER ULD BE MAKG PEOPLE GAY.DISNEY WORLD PREVLY ERNED SELF TONOMOLY THE REEDY CREEK IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, WHICH OVERSAW S OWN FIRE PARTMENT, WATER SYSTEMS, ROADWAYS, AND BUILDG SPECTNS AROUND THE THEME PARK. BUT 2022, AFTER DISNEY’S THEN-CHAIRMAN NMNED FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, DESANTIS RETALIATED BY STRIPPG THE PARK OF S ERNG POWERS.ON MONDAY, DESANTIS SIGNED A BILL THAT ALLOWED THE TONOMO DISTRICT TO NTUE, BUT STALLED A NEW OVERSIGHT BOARD NSISTG OF FIVE MEMBERS, ALL APPOTED BY THE ERNOR.ONE OF THOSE MEMBERS IS RON PERI, A FORMER PASTOR AND THE HEAD OF THE GATHERG—A CHRISTIAN MISTRY FOCED ON OUTREACH TO MEN—WH A LONG HISTORY OF MAKG HOMOPHOBIC AND UNTE MENTS, CNN REPORTED. DURG A ZOOM DISCSN JANUARY 2022, PERI SHARED HIS NSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT TAP WATER.“SO WHY ARE THERE HOMOSEXUALS TODAY? THERE ARE ANY NUMBER OF REASONS, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE GIVEN. SOME WOULD SAY THE CREASE TROGEN OUR SOCIETI. YOU KNOW, THERE’S TROGEN THE WATER OM BIRTH NTROL PILLS. THEY N’T GET OUT,” HE SAID. “THE LEVEL OF TTOSTERONE MEN BROADLY AMERI HAS CLED BY 50 POTS THE PAST 10 YEARS. YOU KNOW, AND SO, MAYBE THAT’S A PART OF .”PERI DID NOT SPECIFY WHAT KD OF POTS HE MEANT, OR WHAT THE PRE-CLE LEVEL HAD BEEN. BUT CHEMILS TAP WATER MAKG PEOPLE GAY IS A POPULAR NSPIRACY THEORY, PHED BY PEOPLE CLUDG ALEX JON. TTOSTERONE LEVELS MEN HAVE DROPPED RECENT S, BUT NOT BY ANYTHG CLOSE TO 50 PERCENT. REARCHERS ARE UNSURE WHY THE HORMONE HAS DIPPED, BUT THERE IS NO EVINCE THAT TTOSTERONE LEVELS AFFECT SEXUAL ORIENTATN.IN THE SAME LL, PERI ALSO LLED HOMOSEXUALY “SHAMEFUL” AND “UNHEALTHY.” IN THE PAST, HE HAS LLED LGBTQ PEOPLE “VIANT” AND BLAMED THEM FOR THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.IN ANOTHER ZOOM DISCSN, PERI PARED ABORTN TO HOLOT-LEVELS OF GENOCI.ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE NEW DISNEY WORLD OVERSIGHT BOARD IS MART GARCIA, A LAWYER TAMPA BAY WHOSE PRIVATE VTMENT FIRM DONATED $50,000 TO DESANTIS’S 2022 REELECTN MPAIGN. DESANTIS ALSO APPOTED BRIDGET ZIEGLER, THE -FOUNR OF THE NSERVATIVE GROUP MOMS FOR LIBERTY, WHICH HAS LED THE CHARGE BANNG BOOKS SCHOOLS, AND THE WIFE OF THE FLORIDA REPUBLIN PARTY CHAIRMAN.STATE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS HAVE WARNED THAT THE BOARD ULD BE ED TO FURTHER DESANTIS’S POLIL GOALS BY BLOCKG MOV AT DISNEY WH WHICH THE ERNOR DISAGRE. REPRENTATIVE RA HARRIS ED THE EXAMPLE OF DISNEY CHANGG SPLASH MOUNTA TO TIANA’S BAYOU ADVENTURE.“ARE WE GOG TO SEE BOARD MEMBERS VETOG PROJECTS THAT ARE NSIRED TO GO AGAST ANY ERNOR?” SHE ASKED DURG THE BATE OVER THE BILL MONDAY. “WOULD THE BOARD THEN BE ABLE TO PH A PANY TO CHANGG THEIR BS MOL JT SO THAT THEY DON’T MISALIGN [WH] THEM?”SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKRON DESANTIS IS CHASG CONSERVATIVE CLOUT AT THE EXPENSE OF HIS REAL CONSTUENTSMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/MARCH 3, 2023/7:49 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYTEXAS GOP WANTS TO BAN BOOKS WH GAY CHARACTERS FROM SCHOOL LIBRARINO LGBTQ CHARACTERS AT ALL WOULD BE ALLOWED.X J/XHUA/GETTY IMAGTEXAS REPUBLINS WANT TO BAN PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARI OM HAVG BOOKS THAT FEATURE SAME-SEX UPL AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS, PART OF THE GOP’S CREASG ATTACKS ON LGBTQ PEOPLE ACROSS THE UNED STAT.THE BILL, TRODUCED THURSDAY, PROHIBS BOOKS THAT CLU “ANY TYPE OF ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL ATTRACTN BETWEEN DIVIDUALS OF THE SAME SEX; TRANSVTISM; GENR DYSPHORIA; [OR] TRANSGENRISM.” IT ALSO BANS LIBRARY WEBS OM REFERRG TO PAG THAT DISCS THE TOPICS, AS WELL AS ANY DRAG PERFORMANC THE LIBRARI.WE TOLD YOU THAT GAY PEOPLE WERE NEXT.TEXAS SB1443 WOULD BAN OM SCHOOL LIBRARI ANY BOOKS THAT HAVE CHARACTERS WHO ARE OF THE SAME SEX A RELATNSHIP. IT ALSO BANS TRANS CHARACTERS.IT BANS WEBSE ACCS WH THE ABOVE TOO.DON'T THK THEY'LL STOP WH TRANS PEOPLE. — ER REED (@ERINTHEMORN) MARCH 3, 2023 THE BOOK BAN WAS TRODUCED THE SAME DAY THAT ANOTHER TEXAS REPUBLIN UNVEILED A BILL THAT WOULD ROLL BACK ALL PROPERTY TAX FOR HETEROSEXUAL, NEVER-DIVORCED MARRIED UPL THAT HAVE 10 CHILDREN TOGETHER (NOT OUT OF WEDLOCK).THE MEASUR ARE THE LATT A TSUNAMI OF ATTEMPTS TO CRACK DOWN ON LGBTQ VISIBILY BY REPUBLINS ACROSS THE UNTRY. THE GOP HAS CLARED WAR ON ANYTHG “WOKE”—THAT IS, DIVERSY OF THOUGHT AND MARGALIZED MUNI—AND IS MAKG GOOD ON S PROMISE.IN FLORIDA, WHERE GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS PHED THROUGH THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, A SCHOOL DISTRICT BANNED 23 BOOKS FEBARY, CLUDG MANY WORKS ALG WH GENR, SEXUALY, AND RACE. IN AT LEAST TWO OTHER UNTI THE SUNSHE STATE, TEACHERS WERE TOLD TO HI THEIR CLASSROOM LIBRARI UNTIL ALL THE BOOKS THEIR LLECTNS HAD BEEN VETTED AND APPROVED FOR PROPRIETY.DESANTIS HAS ALSO VOWED TO FUND DIVERSY, EQUY, AND CLN PROGRAMS ON LLEGE MP, AND HIS ERNMENT HELPED GUT THE COLLEGE BOARD’S A.P. AIN AMERIN STUDI URSE.ON THURSDAY, TENNSEE BEME THE FIRST STATE TO BAN DRAG PERFORMANC PUBLIC, AS MORE THAN 20 SUCH BILLS MOVE THROUGH OTHER STATE LEGISLATUR ACROSS THE U.S. THERE HAVE BEEN HUNDREDS OF BILLS TARGETG GENR-AFFIRMG RE, THE ABILY TO ALTER THE GENR ON YOUR BIRTH CERTIFITE, AND MORE SCE THE START OF 2023 ALONE.THE MA ARGUMENT SUPPORT OF MUCH OF THIS LEGISLATN IS THAT IS TO PROTECT CHILDREN. BUT AS CRICS NOTE, DON’T SEEM TO BE ABOUT THE KIDS AT ALL. IT’S ABOUT FORCG CERTA VALU ONTO EVERYONE ELSE, OFTEN AT THE EXPENSE OF YOUNGER PEOPLE’S SAFETY.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE GROWG RELIG ALLIANCE TO BAN LGBTQ BOOKSMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/MARCH 3, 2023/7:30 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYAMAZON PS CONSTCTN ON “HQ2” AFTER VIRGIA PROMISED $750 MILLN FOR IT

After Disney announced s opposn to a parental rights law — dubbed “don’t say gay” by tractors — DeSantis champned the effort to dissolve the Reedy Creek district. Ron DeSantis' new oversight board ntrol of Disney's special tax district lled homosexualy "evil" last year and shared a basels nspiracy theory that tap water uld be makg more people Monday, the Republin ernor appoted Ron Peri, an Orlando-based former pastor and the CEO of The Gatherg -- a Christian mistry foced on outreach to men -- as one of five people who will now oversee the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the ernment body that has given Disney unique powers Central Florida for more than half a century. The claim that chemils tap water uld turn people gay has gaed ground wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh ge mentator Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were "turng the igg' ogs gay.

"In the same discsn, Peri lled homosexualy "shameful, " lkg to disease.

"There are a lot of unhealthy effects of a homosexual liftyle, " said Peri. "Peri has also said that LGBTQ people "don't have a stake the future" bee many do not have children, and he lled gay people "viant.

RON DESANTIS APPOTED A GUY WHO THKS TAP WATER MAK PEOPLE GAY TO OVERSEE DISNEY’S SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT

"In one discsn, he lked homosexualy to the fall of the Roman Empire -- a ge historil belief ocsnally phed by some Christian activists. "Homosexualy was praised, " Peri said.

DeSantis and DisneyPeri's appotment to the oversight board after a long-standg battle between DeSantis and Disney over the Parental Rights Edutn Act -- which crics have lled Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law. One nomee, former pastor Ron Peri, prevly said he thks trogen water turns men gay, CNN reported.

Ron DeSantis' appotee to the new Disney oversight board once claimed men were turng gay bee of trogen tap water, CNN reported.

'A LOT OF UNHEALTHY EFFECTS': DESANTIS-APPOTED DISNEY BOARD MEMBER SUGGTS TAP WATER TURNS PEOPLE GAY

CNN reported that Peri has ma a strg of rogatory ments agast the LGBTQ muny, cludg llg homosexualy "evil" and makg a basels claim that birth ntrol pills beg flhed to the water supply has ma men gay. In 2015, Jon asserted that "chemils the water" were "turng the igg' ogs gay, " The Texas Observer reported.

The pastor also likened homosexualy to a "disease" and claimed the LGBTQ muny do not have a "stake the future.

""There are a lot of unhealthy effects of a homosexual liftyle, " Peri said, acrdg to CNN.