A family media organization is sounding the alarm about Disney+’s continued efforts to push occult entertainment among children and teens.
Movieguide reports that the platform recently premiered a new series that promotes not only witchcraft and paganism but also strong LGBT content, so much so that the show’s actors have promised viewers that it will be a “gay explosion at the end.”
“Agatha All Along,” which premiered on Sept. 18, is a spin-off of Marvel’s hit 2021 series “WandaVision” and centers on a witch named Agatha Harkness.
“Harkness finds herself depressed and powerless after a suspicious goth teen helps her break free from a warped spell,” the story reads. Official synopsis from the show. “Her interest is piqued when he begs her to take him to the legendary Witches’ Path, a magical gauntlet of trials that, if survived, rewards the witch with what she’s missing. Together, Agatha and this mysterious teen form a desperate coven and set out to walk the Path…”
The actors said a Variety that the show explicitly highlights LGBT issues.
Aubrey Plaza, who plays “Green Witch” Rio Vidal, told the outlet, “It’s going to be a gay explosion at the end.” And Sasheer Zamata, who plays Jennifer Kale, agreed with Variety when he was told it was “the gayest project Marvel has ever done.”
“Witches are queer by nature, simply because we are marginalized and left out for so many reasons,” she explained. “This show represents different types of people so well.”
As CBN News reported, Disney+ has long pushed entertainment that promotes both the occult and LGBT content, despite falling flat among some viewers.
Last year, the platform gave green light to begin production on a new German original series titled Pauline, which focused on a teenage girl’s love story with Satan.
However, Movieguide president and founder Ted Baehr has called on parents to petition Disney+ to stop the show from being released.
“We cannot allow this perverse and disturbing content to corrupt our children’s values and beliefs,” she said. “Pauline sends a dangerous message to young viewers: it is acceptable and even desirable to associate with demons, Satan and evil!”
Disney also recently released Hocus Pocus 2, an updated version of its 1993 Halloween film that includes references to crystals, herbs, moon spells and child sacrifices, Movieguide reports.
Jamie Gooch, a mother of three, said a KWTX-TV that the film “unleashes hell on his children and his home.”
“Don’t watch this movie,” he warned. “Everyone thinks it’s fake and innocent, but they could be casting any kind of spell they wanted, anything could come into your house through that TV screen.”
According to a Barna study of 2006 “Three-quarters of American youth (73%) have participated in at least one type of psychic or witchcraft-related activity, beyond mere media exposure or horoscope use.”
“The most common types of witchcraft behaviors were using a Ouija board and reading a book about witchcraft or Wicca, each of which had been done by more than one-third of teens,” the study continued. “More than one-quarter of teens had played a game that included elements of witchcraft or wizardry. One-tenth of teens had participated in a séance, and one in twelve had attempted to cast a spell or brew a magic potion.”
And since the explosion of TikTok, public practice of the occult has not only become more common, but is growing among the site’s younger users.
According to Wired videos tagged #witch received over 585 million views and #witchesoftiktok received 84 million views in 2020 alone.
Jenny Weaver, a former Wiccan turned minister, told CBN News that believers should be on guard as witchcraft and the occult continue to increase.
“I think the media has done a good job of pushing something to the point where it’s now normalized,” she said. “We have programs that promote witchcraft and sorcery from kindergarten on: ‘It’s OK for kids to say these words with us.’ And it’s so typical of preschool witchcraft that it touches the hearts and minds of people, including those in the church,” Weaver said.
“I think the media has done a good job of pushing something to the point of normalizing it,” she said. “We have programs from preschool age that promote witchcraft and sorcery: ‘It’s okay for kids to say these words with us.’ And it’s so typical that it gets into the hearts and minds of people, including people in the church,” Weaver said.
“You can’t erase borders,” he said earlier this year. “Your soul depends on you knowing the truth.”
