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31. Too bad Anita's mouth wasn't wired shut in the 70's!!!

Posted at 5:08PM on Nov 29th 2008 by Harry

32. franksandbeans is a lost soul. You poor ignorant brainwashed man. I'll pray for our own well-being. Whe Anita finally passes hope you can enlighten yourself and not find yoursef in the depths of hell where she is going to be. You're so close-minded. Sad that you believe homosexuality is based on perversions. Goes to show your ignorance. Time to modernize yourself. And what's with franksandbeans as a name? Pervert yourself you sound like with a name like that.

Posted at 7:46PM on Nov 28th 2008 by T-in-SD

33. She wasn't just against homosexuality being taught it schools.She started a whole campaign with the slogan "Kill A Queer For Christ" which started a string of shootings in gay bars across the country.She also had a lot to do with several gay teenagers committing suicide around the same time

Posted at 7:52PM on Nov 28th 2008 by David079

34. There's a special section of Hell waiting for this b*tch.

Posted at 8:10PM on Nov 28th 2008 by Mincing Queen

35. leave it up to those "devout evangelicals" to not practice what they preach. i hope this woman's ashamed of herself. probably not, but she should be.

hate and intolerance are not morals.

Posted at 12:42AM on Nov 29th 2008 by ???

36. I know some gay friends who hated what she did was gravely misguided based misinformation used to excuse her point of view and they forgave her and also tell me they didn't chose who and what they are and have no sympathy for the selfish self-serving bed hoppers in their community. Anita took it too far and eventually paid the price, Our country will band various cartoons from other countries over silly forms of nudity convinced it'll harm our children. Anita became her own worst enemy by using her fame to push a personal agenda based on a misguided religious belief. None of us are God, yet many of us act like we are, Thats the real problem.

Posted at 9:44PM on Nov 28th 2008 by tom grant

37. Christian monster

Posted at 9:31PM on Nov 28th 2008 by tia

38. So what the Left is telling us is we are much better off with Gays in our lives. That Gay is Good. That Gay is to be looked up to and envied. That if one is Gay, it is because they have a certain enlightenment that non Gay people could never no.

I say nonsense. Gay is not better. I thought all were striving for equality. Prop 8 people are hateful people. None for me thanks.

Shame on Gay people that insist on equality yet talk bad now about Black people and God fearing people. Gay people have shown themselves to be worse than those they hate.

Gay people, stay in the Cities, you arent wanted nor tolerated outside of them. You know it and so do the rest of us. May your cities fall into decadence.

We are armed and ready outside of your cities. With provisions and gold and guns and man and woman values. Stay and live among yourselves.

Posted at 10:12PM on Nov 28th 2008 by None for us thanks

39. Y'know, it really annoys me when you people start your "oh those darn Christians!" BS. You act like we're flippin' blowin' ourselves up when we see gays around. Every group has its radicals that represent a small percentage and I don't think any of you understand that, judging from these comments. Come on already, there are people who are going to disagree with your lifestyle. It's life, GET OVER IT. I look at it like it's something that's not for me, but far be it from me to tell anyone else how to live their lives. I hate that just because I'm a Christian people are automatically gonna assume that I'm a close-minded, brainwashed racist b*tch when in reality that couldn't be farther from the truth. Hey, that sounds kinda like discrimination and the big scary s word (stereotyping), doesn't it? You can't hate on someone else while telling them they're horrible for hating on you. Doesn't work that way.

Posted at 10:17PM on Nov 28th 2008 by ohcomeON

40. World's biggest hypocrite.

Posted at 10:32PM on Nov 28th 2008 by michelleh

41. ^ Point proven. Thank you.

Posted at 10:43PM on Nov 28th 2008 by ohcomeON

42. Ah, Anita. I remember your mean spirit and 'Christian' values of hate and intolerance. You are so last century! I am not Christian so I am not required to believe Christianity is correct and everything else is going to hell. I am required by my own moral compass to reject hatred and encourage peace and compassion for others. I wish you peace, but please leave others to direct their own lives as they see fit. You don't get brownie points in 'heaven' for spreading fear and hate on earth.

Posted at 12:45AM on Nov 29th 2008 by DeeDee

43. You are still believe in God and not agree with Bryant's believes. Even my own father never liked her politics.

Posted at 11:20PM on Nov 28th 2008 by Kat

44. ANITA BRYANT IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A BEAUTIFUL USA ICON. We need to protect our children from perverts. That has nothing to do with religion.
“Bryant was born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma.
Bryant became Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and was a second runner-up in the 1959 Miss America beauty pageant at age 19, right after graduating from Tulsa's Will Rogers High School.
Her three biggest pop hits were: "Till There Was You" (1959) (Pop #30); "Paper Roses" (1960) (Pop #5); and "In My Little Corner of the World" (1960) (Pop #10). She placed a total of eleven songs in the Top 100, plus some in the "Bubbling Under" chart
In 1969 she became a spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission, and nationally televised commercials featured her singing "Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree" and stating the commercials' tagline: "Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine." She also did advertisements for Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Holiday Inn, and Tupperware.
She sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" during the graveside services for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973, and performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl III in 1969.
In 1977, Dade County, Florida (now Miami-Dade County) passed an ordinance sponsored by Bryant's former good friend Ruth Shack, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Anita Bryant led a highly publicized campaign to repeal the ordinance as the leader of a coalition named Save Our Children. The campaign was waged based on what was labeled "Christian beliefs regarding the sinfulness of homosexuality and the imagined threat of homosexual recruitment of children and child molestation."
Her view was that "What these people really want, hidden behind obscure legal phrases, is the legal right to propose to our children that theirs is an acceptable alternate way of life. [...] I will lead such a pogrom to stop it as this country has not seen before." The campaign was called 'Save Our Children', the start of an organized opposition to gay rights that spread across the nation. Jerry Falwell went to Miami to help her.
Bryant made the following statements during the campaign: "As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children" and "If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters." On June 7, 1977, Bryant's campaign led to a repeal of the anti-discrimination ordinance by a margin of 69 to 31 percent.
The gay community retaliated against Bryant by organizing a boycott on orange juice. Gay bars all over North America took Screw Drivers off their drink menus and replaced them with the "Anita Bryant" which was made with Vodka and Apple Juice. Sales and proceeds went to gay political activists to help fund their fight against Bryant and her anti-homosexual views
A boycott was organized against the Florida Citrus Commission, who used Bryant in advertising
In the aftermath, legislation was passed outlawing adoption by gays and lesbians in the state of Florida and Bryant led several more campaigns around the country to repeal local anti-discrimination ordinances including St. Paul, Minnesota, Wichita, Kansas, and Eugene, Oregon. Her success led to an effort to pass the Briggs Initiative in California which would have made pro- or neutral statements regarding homosexuals or homosexuality by any public school employee cause for dismissal. Grass-roots liberal organizations, chiefly in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, sprang up to defeat the initiative. Days before the election, the California Democratic Party (wary of appearing pro-gay) opposed the proposed legislation. The initiative suffered a massive defeat at the polls.
Anita Bryant's political success galvanized her opponents. She became one of the first persons to be publicly "pied" as a political act (in her case, on television), in Des Moines in 1977. Bryant quipped "At least it's a fruit pie", apparently making a pun on the derogatory term for a gay man, "fruit". Police authorities refused to prosecute for the assault. Gay activists organized an orange juice boycott. Many celebrities including Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Paul Williams, John Waters, Carroll O'Connor, Mary Tyler Moore, and Jane Fonda publicly supported the boycott. The story was told in the book, At Any Cost (1978). To this day, Bryant is still viewed as one of the most loathed public figures of all time by the gay community, her name being synonymous with homophobia.
The fallout from her political activism had a devastating effect on her business and entertainment career. Her contract with the Florida Citrus Commission was allowed to lapse in 1979 because of the controversy and the negative publicity generated by her political campaigns and the resulting boycott of Florida orange juice.
Anita Bryant now lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, and says she does charity work for various youth organizations while heading Anita Bryant Ministries International.
Anita Bryant appears to have resumed the anti-gay stance, however, in that Anita Bryant Ministries International presently features just two articles, both championing her long-standing opposition to the "homosexual agenda".”

Posted at 11:40PM on Nov 28th 2008 by Karen

45. The Devil Wears That.

Posted at 11:44PM on Nov 28th 2008 by Pity the Lost souls