Martin Mawyer, president of the Christian Action Network, will show a video he took at a recent Gay Day at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., that he said features lewd and illegal behavior.

While the fundies are sure to throw money at the head sherang of CAN, the organisers of Gay Day take it all in their stride.

Doug Swallow, one of the founders of Gay Day, said the Christian Action Network's Nashville presentation is merely a publicity stunt.

It's kind of silly, he said. I wish... I kept track of all the times Christian Action Network has been around saying something or doing something. It's just the same old tired story coming out of their mouths every time.

Swallow said the publicity from the criticism has helped the Gay Day event grow to 100,000 last year. Every bit of publicity they get doing this gives us publicity, too, he said.

Seems there's no such thing as bad publicity.

I'm more of a cynic and wonder exactly where the funds generated by a slavering appeal to like-minded wingnuts goes. I'm betting a lot of it goes on the expenses of keeping Martin Mawyer in fast cars and fact-finding junkets to exotic destinations.

Christian group's protest targets Disney, Gay Day - The Tennessean, 4th December 2003.