Florida Wants to Deny Tax Breaks to Films and TV with Gay Characters!

Didn't this state learn from their mistakes and Anita Bryants fat mouth?! What are they thinking of down there?
Most states offer aggressive incentives to lure movie makers to them. Not in Florida. In recent years, Florida has slipped from third in the country in terms of film production, only behind California and New York, to out of the top ten.
Thanks to Rep. Stephen Precourt, a new bill that increases tax incentives to lure television and movie production to Florida would deny those tax breaks to films that feature gay characters.
Miami New Times reports...Current laws prevent tax breaks for films that feature smoking, sex, nudity, or profane language. The proposed changes make Florida guidelines seem even more like the Hays Code that censored Hollywood from the the '30s to the '60s. Thankfully, Precourt hasn't borrowed more ideas from that censorship office and written in language that would also disallow interracial relationships, suggestive dancing, and "lustful kisses."
Besides not offering tax breaks to films that "exhibit or implied act" of nontraditional family values, films with gratuitous violence would also be left out.























































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