Article Title: "Souther Baptist Convention Calls for Boycott of Disney"
Source: The New York Times
Writer: Allen R. Myerson
Date: June 19, 1997
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/19/us/southern-baptist-convention-calls-for-boycott-of-disney.html?scp=1&sq=disney%20southern%20baptists&st=cse
Summary: In 1997 the Souther Baptist Convention, America's largest prodestant denomination, made the decision to boycott the Walt Disney company on the grounds that it had "gone astray."
Now some might be wondering how exactly Disney went "astray" when they're so kid friendly? Well, the Souther Baptists believed that Disney had strayed mostly because of their support for gay rights. The article quoted Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist morals and ethics panel, saying ''You can't walk the family side of the street and the gay side of the street in the Magic Kingdom at the same time.''
Though the Southern Baptist denomination had 15.7 members at the time the article was written, an analyst for Sanford C Bernstein & Company said that the boycott would be unlikely to succeed. And considering that Disney is still doing well over 14 years after the publication of this article, it's clear that the analyst was correct.
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