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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