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Mardel pulls all Disney products…

2:31 PM EDT on June 7, 2022

In late April, when Disney was facing backlash from right-wing cancel culture over the company's response to Florida's infamous "Don't Say Gay" law, I got a tip via the Ogle Mole Network.

The Mole claimed that during a recent shopping trip to Mardel – the regional chain of Christian bookstores that are owned and backed by the Hobby Lobby family – they noticed that Disney merchandise had been pulled from the store's shelves.

Honestly, I was more surprised to hear that an Ogle Mole was shopping at Mardel than I was that Mardel was pulling Disney merchandise from its stores, but still thought it was interesting:

I, admittedly, have never been to Mardel, so I had no clue they even carried Disney stuff. The Bible already has plenty of myths, stories, and non-copyrighted fictional characters to sell, so why would they need to pilfer less imaginative ones from a big for-profit corporation?

After getting the email, I went to Mardel's website, searched "Disney," and was greeted by rows and rows and rows of Disney merchandise. I'd say their online store had at least 100 or so items for sale. I made a mental note to check back on the story and do more research, forgot about that mental note, and then rediscovered it again this past weekend.

On Sunday night, I went to the Mardel website and searched "Disney." Instead of getting hundreds of results, I got two – an autobiography about Walt Disney and a set of mess-free Princess Coloring Pads: