A small-town drive-in movie theater in Henagar, Alabama, is sticking it to executives at Disney.
Unhappy with Disney’s decision to feature an openly gay character in “Beauty and the Beast,” Henagar Drive-In Theater has decided not to air the live-action rendition of the classic tale.
The theater sees its move as taking “a stand” against companies that “continually force their views” on people. The drive-in theater is the only movie theater in Henagar, with the second-closest theater in Fort Payne, 11 miles away.
On its Facebook page, the theater wrote: “It is with great sorrow that I have to tell our customers that we will not be showing Beauty and the Beast at the Henagar Drive-In when it comes out.” The drive-in makes it clear that it won’t be showing the film because of reports that the film will premier Disney’s “first homosexual character.”
The inclusion of the gay character, according to the statement, means that the theater has “no business showing” the film because its managers couldn’t sit through it “with God or Jesus.” Showing the film would result in a “compromise on what the Bible teaches.”
Acknowledging that “some [will] not agree with this decision,” the theater pledges to only show “wholesome movies” free of “sex, nudity, homosexuality and foul language.”
