Monday, February 27, 2012

Re: Anita Bryant's Ex-Hubby Bob Green Dies Full of Hatred, Bigotry & Blaming Gays

It is also what happens when you try to force your agenda down the
throats of others... BEWARE TOMMYTOMTOM... you too will reap what you
sow.

On Feb 27, 8:05 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anita Bryant's Ex-Hubby Dies Full of Hatred, Bigotry & Blaming Gays
>
> 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_h...
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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