Most people would never have looked at the Orlando region of
central Florida in the 1960s and imagined that it would ever
become anything other than the hot, humid, mosquito and alligator
infested swampland that it was.

When Disney looked at Central Florida, he saw the perfect location for Disney World, his second theme park. Since Mickey Mouse greeted its first visitors in 1971, millions of people and billions of
dollars have poured into the area.

The Disney name has become synonymous with wholesome, family
values. So when the Walt Disney Corporation began extending
insurance and other benefits to the same sex partners of its
employees, many conservatives were outraged. George Crossley was one of the more vocal critics of Orlando's changing culture. Crossley was an ordained Baptist minister with a four-day-a-week
radio show and a televised ministry.

Crossley's sermons and shows were a mix of fundamentalist religion and conservative political talk. He brought to his ministry the same fiery enthusiasm that he had once reserved for less spiritual pursuits. He led a petition drive to prevent the showing of 'The Last Temptation of Christ'. Homosexuals and pornographers were frequent targets of his wrath.

In 1994, Crossley felt prey to his own temptation; sex. The preacher began having an affair with Madeline Waldo, the
estranged wife of a rival minister, George 'Butch' Waldo. When
Waldo discovered the affair, he set out to expose Crossley.

In July 1996, after months of hounding Crossley, Waldo called
Crossley's radio show, posing as a man with a question for the
host about AIDS. On the air, Waldo blurted out that he was
concerned about contracting AIDS because "Your host has been
sleeping with my wife".