For Gay-Policy Critics, Drinks Are On Disney

Demonstrators rallied outside Walt Disney Studios to attack the company’s alleged pro-homosexual policies, and studio workers gave them cookies and sodas.

“We want Mickey to come home,” Mason Weaver of Oceanside said at a news conference during Friday’s rally. “We don’t want him to have a dress when he gets here.”

Several Christian groups, notably the Southern Baptist Convention, have called for boycotts of Disney products and theme parks. They object to Disney granting its employees health benefits for same-sex partners and to the TV series “Ellen,” which features a lesbian character and is broadcast on Disney-owned ABC.

Disney employees set out water, soft drinks and cookies for the demonstrators, who stood outside in muggy, 100-degree weather.

Disney issued a statement saying the entertainment giant is committed to “values that include tolerance and compassion and respect for everybody.”