Note: Homophobic Miss America loser and anti-gay activist Anita "Save
The Children" Bryant is living in obscurity in Edmond, Oklahoma with
her second husband Charlie Dry. She went bankrupt twice. Florida's
ban on gay adoption, which Bryant championed, was finally overturned
in 2010. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant -T
Guest blogger Will Kohler is a freelance writer and activist from
Cincinnati, Ohio. Will blogs at Back2Stonewall.com.
Bob Green, was a onetime radio DJ who married pop Miss Oklahoma and
orange juice spokesman Anita Bryant, managed her career and then
followed her into anti-gay activism - which ultimately destroyed their
careers and marriage. For more than 30 years Green lived alone full of
hate and resentment blaming gays for all of his problems. Green was
found dead Jan. 26 at his home in Miami Beach. He was 80.
In 1977, Mr. Green and Bryant led a successful effort to repeal
Miami-Dade County's newly passed gay rights ordinance, Bryant out
front and the tall, handsome Green behind the scenes, as he had been
when he managed her singing career...
Flush with victory in Miami-Dade, the couple founded Anita Bryant
Ministries, which offered "deprogramming" and halfway houses for gays
and a lecture series called "Design for Successful Living," aimed at
battling divorce...
In 1980, Bryant filed for divorce, a scandal in the Christian circles
where she'd been revered. Mr. Green begged her to reconcile in an open
letter: "Let us both put aside all other earthly considerations and
reunite in Christian love."Bryant wasn't interested. She told People
magazine: "Divorce is against everything I believe in. I wanted to
save my marriage, but I decided that was not the route to go."
The following year, she told a woman's magazine that the marriage "was
never much good to begin with" and hinted that both had been
unfaithful.
In 2007, Mr. Green told the Miami Herald that he blamed gay people for
the turmoil in his life because "their stated goal was to put [Bryant]
out of business and destroy her career. And that's what they did. It's
unfair."
No one should ever celebrate the death of another but in Bob Greene's
case (and the eventual upcoming of Anita Bryant's) its a very hard
thing not to do.
So many forget that Bryant and Green obsessed when Miami-Dade County
added an amendment to its human rights ordinance, making it illegal to
discriminate in housing, employment, loans, and public accommodations
based on "affectional or sexual preference."
They forget that Bryant is the "originator" of the lie that children
would be molested or converted by gay perverts. "As a mother," she
famously explained, "I know that homosexuals cannot biologically
reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children."
Bryant and Greene fanned the flames of anti-gay bigotry with speaking
tours that made her a national spokesperson against "homosexual
rights." She was the star attraction at rallies that led to the repeal
of gay rights in numerous cities, and she came to California to
support the Briggs Initiative in 1978 (which failed, but would have
banned homosexuals or anyone advocating the "gay lifestyle" from
teaching in public schools).
"I don't hate the homosexuals," she wrote in a fundraising letter.
"But as a mother, I must protect my children from their evil
influence." and promised she would "seek help and change for
homosexuals, whose sick and sad values belie the word 'gay' which they
pathetically use to cover their unhappy lives."
You reap what you sow. Anita Bryant and Bob Green sowed hate. They
lost their fortune, their OJ gig, and their marriage. Greene died
alone, bitter and filled with hate.
Take note Tony Perkins, Bryan J. Fischer, and Maggie Gallagher - this
is what happens when people are more concerned about how others should
live than their own happiness. They will face this same bitter end.
More:
http://www.bilerico.com/2012/02/anita_bryants_ex-hubby_dies_full_of_hatred_bigotry.php#more
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Have a great day,
Tommy
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Have a great day,
Tommy
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