Is it "right"?

Welcome to the Henagar Drive-in Theater, in Henagar, Alabama.

This is their marquee.

One movie that will not be appearing on this marquee is the upcoming Disney release, Beauty and the Beast and that is causing some controversy.

The theater's current owners took over in December, after the movie had already been scheduled to appear.  The new owners, citing their Christian values, say they cannot show Beauty and the Beast in the wake of revelations that there will be a "gay moment" on the big screen.

Their Facebook post announcing this was taken down but you can see it below.

I do not agree for one moment that Disney or anyone else is trying to "...continually force their views..." on anyone.  Like it or not, even the most fervent of Christians cannot deny the face that homosexuality does exist.  They can make all the subjective judgments about the LGBT community as long as they don't do anything that violates the law.  Those judgments are the height of hypocrisy in my mind, but we cannot force them to not judge, or to hold on to their ridiculous beliefs that homosexuality is a sin.

By the same token, these theater owners have every right to choose which films they will and will not show on their outdoor screen.  I believe it to be a bad decision but it may well be a good business decision for them; considering their market may well be made up of a population that largely believes what they believe.

Businesses cannot and should not discriminate against people in a way that violates our legal protections codified in various civil rights laws.  But those laws do not require that all movies be shown by every single theater in existence.

We can disagree with that decision.  We can choose to speak out, and to boycott this business for its choice.  We just cannot forget that it is their choice to make.