A conservative media watchdog group is bashing Disney Plus for breaking its promise not to add R-rated movies to the streaming platform. Parents Television and Media Council recently announced that Disney Plus “made R-rated Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan available to subscribers today.”

In 2019, the blog “What’s On Disney Plus” reported that Disney Plus would only include content with ratings of “PG-13 or softer” and that more adult-oriented content the Walt Disney Company acquired from its purchase of 20th Century Fox would be distributed on its other streaming platform, Hulu.

PTC President Tim Winter recollected, “Three years ago, the Walt Disney Company made a promise to families. No R-rated movies on Disney+, they said. It’s a family-focused platform, they said. We have Hulu for our edgier adult fare, they said. It turns out they were lying to us. After decades of corporate brilliance establishing itself as the world’s most trusted brand for families, today’s C-level suite at Disney has decided to flush it all down the toilet.”

Noting that “Disney+ points subscribers to its parental controls,” Winter contended that “the mere presence of R-rated and TV-MA rated content violates the trust and sensibilities of families.” He also expressed disappointment that “what took decades to build is now taking mere months to erase.”

Winter continued, “One day in the not-too-distant future, business schools will point back to this corrupt corporate U-Turn as they analyze what happened to the once-great Walt Disney Company. In the meantime, families will continue to be woefully underserved by Hollywood.”

Disney Plus’ embrace of R-rated content is not the first time the streaming service has faced criticism for the material available on the platform. Earlier this year, Disney Plus added six Marvel television series with ratings of TV-MA to the collection. The “TV-MA” rating is equivalent to an “R” rating, indicating that the material should only be available to mature audiences.

Even before Disney Plus began content explicitly designed for adults, the company had started incorporating topics critics described as inappropriate for young children into programming marketed as family-friendly.

Last year, the streaming service announced that a reboot of the animated series “The Proud Family” would feature same-sex parents as characters. In 2020, the short film “Out,” which included a gay main character, premiered on the platform.

The reboot of “The Proud Family” is not the only example of the Walt Disney Company working to introduce LGBT ideology to children. A lesbian was one of the main characters in “Onward,” an animated feature film produced by Disney’s Pixar Animation Studio.

Melissa Henson, program director for the PTC, cited the integration of LGBT ideology into children’s programming and Disney Plus’ addition of R-rated content to its portfolio as evidence that “there seems to be a general movement from Disney away from its roots.” She recalled that founder Walt Disney wanted to “bring families together” by producing content that would “bring families together” and “unite families.”

Henson says this integration will lead to parents watching R-rated films in one room while children watch appropriate content in another, pulling families apart instead of bringing them together.