Straight From Their Mouths – anti-gay attitudes of Anita Bryant and Dr. Laura Schlessinger – Brief Article
Dom Romesburg
ANITA BRYANT DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER SHOW THAT SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE
When it comes to wicked women; Anita Bryant and Dr. Laura Schlessinger are certainly both all-time chart-toppers. But who’s the scariest of them all?
In 1977 Bryant, a former beauty queen and orange juice pitchwoman, spearheaded the Save Our Children campaign in Dade County, Fla., which includes Miami, helping to repeal an ordinance that had prohibited discrimination in housing, employment, and other areas on the basis of sexual orientation. She claimed that such a policy went against the word of God and would have threatened Miami’s children.
Radio talk show host Schlessinger proselytized for California’s recently passed Proposition 22, which bans recognition of same-sex marriage. She also opposes gay and lesbian adoption and gay-inclusive educational curricula. She claims that such things–you guessed it–go against the world of God and could lead to “rights” for pedophilia and bestiality.
The more things change …
ANITA BRYANT
ON “Behind the high-sounding appeal against
GAY RIGHTS discrimination in jobs and housing, which is not a
problem to the `closet’ homosexual, [gay people] are
really asking to be blessed in their abnormal
lifestyle.”
ON “[Since homosexuals cannot reproduce], they can only
GAY PEOPLE recruit children, and this is what they want to do.
AND Some of the stories I could tell you about child
CHILDREN recruitment and child abuse by homosexuals would
turn your stomach.”
ON “I don’t hate homosexuals. I pray for them.”
LOVING THE
SINNER
ON “If homosexuality were the normal way, God would
SCRIPTURE have made Adam and Bruce.”
ON “I’m sorry, Matthew Shepard–I don’t know who
MATTHEW that is.”
SHEPARD
DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER
ON “Please, this is not about civil rights, ’cause I
GAY RIGHTS would be the first one in front of that line…. This
is about taking a deviant behavior, a dysfunctional
behavior, normalizing [it, and] sexualizing our kid.”
ON “No, not every homosexual is a pedophile–obviously
GAY PEOPLE not–but it’s a greater percentage–much greater
AND [than among heterosexuals].”
CHILDREN
ON “I have always been in the position of compassion to
LOVING THE people who have to deal with not being able to be
SINNER heterosexual and get married and have families and
have that heritage and lifestyle. Where I turned is
where compassion … turned into the destruction of
the family, the manipulation of children to accept
deviancy as diversity.”
ON “If you look at Leviticus … it isn’t just for
SCRIPTURE homosexuals. The list of sexual activity that is
forbidden is very long, and the rest of it refers to
heterosexuals. Long list for heterosexuals, one [item]
for gays. Don’t do it. That’s basically it.”
ON “If Matthew hadn’t been willing to leave for sex
MATTHEW [with his murderers], he might still be alive. That
SHEPARD certainly doesn’t make him responsible for his own
death, but when you put yourself in a situation of
going off to have anonymous sex with people you meet
at a bar, what kind of person is gonna leave with you?
Usually scum…. This was a terrible tragedy … that
might have been avoided if he had simply gone home
with his friends instead of thinking he was gonna
get a little.”
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