the issue is whether or not to repeal a four-month-old ordinance which prohibits job and housing discrimination against homosexuals. anita bryant, a miss america runner-up in 1959, today is an entertainer and mother of four who says she wants to save her children from homosexual influences. she doesn t want gays teaching. she led the petition drive forcing the referendum. anita bryant was a singer and for quite a few americans she was a symbol of the beginning of pushing back against the social experiments of the decade. i love homosexuals, if you can believe that. i love them enough to tell them the truth because i know there is hope for the homosexuals that if they re willing to turn from sin, the same as any individual, that they can be ex-homosexuals the same as there can be an ex-murderer, an ex-thief, or ex-anybody. i feel very strongly that what we re faced with today is something that is being camouflaged under christian
the truth because i know there is hope for the homosexuals that if they re willing to turn from sin, the same as any individual, that they can be ex-homosexuals the same as there can be an ex-murderer, an ex-thief, or ex-anybody. i feel very strongly that what we re faced with today is something that is being camouflaged under christian faith, christian love, that is one of the most vicious hate campaigns this country has ever seen. anita bryant s efforts definitely mobilized the gay community. sometimes having a visible opponent is a great unifying force. tonight the laws of god and the cultural values of man have been vindicated. they win the campaign, but it has a national resonance. this is what heterosexuals do, fellows. and for many gays, anita bryant is a symbol of this intractable prejudice. we were going to go on a crusade across the nation and try to do away with the homosexuals and were met with
the same as there can be an ex-murderer, an ex-thief, or ex-anybody. i feel very strongly that what we re faced with today is something that is being camouflaged under christian faith, christian love, that is one of the most vicious hate campaigns this country has ever seen. anita bryant s efforts definitely mobilized the gay community. sometimes having a visible opponent is a great unifying force. tonight the laws of god and the cultural values of man have been vindicated. they win the campaign, but it has a national resonance. this is what heterosexuals do, fellows. and for many gays, anita bryant is a symbol of this intractable prejudice. we were going to go on a crusade across the nation and try to do away with the homosexuals and were met with protests and all kinds of problems.
sin, the same as any individual, that they can be ex-homosexuals the same as there can be an ex-murderer, an ex-thief, or ex-anybody. i feel very strongly that what we re faced with today is something that is being camouflaged under christian faith, christian love, that is one of the most vicious hate campaigns this country has ever seen. anita bryant s efforts definitely mobilized the gay community. sometimes having a visible opponent is a great unifying force. tonight the laws of god and the cultural values of man have been vindicated. they win the campaign, but it has a national resonance. this is what heterosexuals do, fellows. and for many gays, anita bryant is a symbol of this intractable prejudice. we were going to go on a crusade across the nation and try to do away with the homosexuals and were met with protests and all kinds of problems. security, security let them stay, let them stay.