ORLANDO, Fla. — In the latest, and perhaps final, act of reconciliation between the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and the Walt Disney corporation, First Baptist Church, Orlando, Fla., leaders baptized more than 100 people May 21 in a Walt Disney World lake.
According to a May 22 Orlando Sentinel story, the service was held on the shores of a lake at one of the Disney World resorts. The ages of those baptized ranged from 7 to 88 years old.
The baptisms came at the end of a fading boycott that started in the 1990s, when SBC leaders criticized then-Disney Chairman Michael Eisner for instituting gay-friendly products and company policies. SBC members also decried perceived sexual licentiousness in some Disney movies.
Eisner has since left the company, and the SBC formally terminated the boycott in 2005. (TAB)
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