Posted on 03/25/2018 12:23:34 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Anita was not only savaged, both she and her family were threatened in the late 70s for the principled moral stand she took. The threat included Anita’s mother who was then living in rural Oklahoma, west of Tulsa. I was a reserve deputy in that county and two of us were assigned on an overnight detail to watch her house due to the specific threats. Nothing ever happened and nobody ever approached the house. It did strike me as really incongruous that Florida homosexuals would threaten an elderly woman in rural OK because of something her daughter said or did. As another FReeper has noted, it likely marked a moment in the development of my own personal philosophy.
What those scumbags did to this fine lady shows us just what kind of subhumans they truely were.I hope they got/get theirs.
Thanks. I like her long hair style in that video.
“Little Things Mean A Lot”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sis5kHcwe4s
Like (this)
Not like(this)
Bert Kaempfert songs were part of the soundtrack of my childhood. The Sandy Beckert show, and I think the 60’s Match Game used “That Happy Feeling” as intros. Africaan Beat was another fave.
btw- love your tagline.
Looked it up - the Match Game used “Swingin’ Safari”
The pie thrower died a terrible, diseased death at age 44.
Poetic justice.
Just did a few minutes of research on him.Looks like he was a genuine piece of filth from a very early age.I wonder if he died of a disease caused by allowing things other than medical instruments to be placed in his most private of orifices.Or maybe in his case it wasn't particularly "private".
You are right. I will never forget.
A few more good ones from her:
Volare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05yD8zBiHLo
Unchained Melody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPmtHLRcYD8
Cry Me A River / Love Letters In The Sand / Song from Moulin Rouge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6wIavDgCmk
Ironic that Anita Bryant was exactly right. Everything that she warned about has come to pass. But the sodomite left won’t admit it.
It’s poetic justice that she’s well outlived that fruit who assaulted her with the pie.
“Scott J. Hamilton, 50, the executive director of the Oklahoma City-based Cimarron Alliance Foundation, a gay rights advocate group, said Bryant’s campaigns from the late 1970s had long-lasting effects.”
Good. But that we could have many more courageous culture warriors like her.
I vaguely remember the "controversy" going on in the mid-seventies as a fairly sheltered early teen. I heard both sides of the characterization, and remembered that I was confused at which was correct, that she was defending righteousness or that she was a "bigot."
Indeed. I experienced the same conflict. As I matured I realized that the vilification of Anita Bryant was what opened the door to all the horrific nonsense that we are facing today on this issue.
What really opened the door of our society to the sodomites was the 4-year-earlier de-pathologization of homosexuality by the APA (under extreme duress.) They capitalized on this conquest to the extreme, deeming it an across-the-board justification of homosexuality in every arena. The APA’s (both psychological and psychiatric) were putty in their hands after that, as they steamrolled over the entire psychological profession. The legal profession was next.
And then the churches.
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