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Stories of the Ages: Anita Bryant(78th Birthday today)
News OK ^ | 3-14-2011 | Robert Medley

Posted on 03/25/2018 12:23:34 PM PDT by ReformationFan

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Happy 78th Birthday to a courageous lady who sacrificed her lucrative career as a singer and commercial spokeswoman warning us about the direction our nation's culture was heading in 40 years ago. This 2011 article is the most recent story I could find about her which treated her fairly.
1 posted on 03/25/2018 12:23:34 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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She was the first conservative woman to be savaged by the left while "good" men stood idly by.
That didn't placate the left, it just insured she would not be the last (see: Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Sara Sanders, et al)
2 posted on 03/25/2018 12:31:58 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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One thing is for sure. . .she will have crowns to lay at Jesus’ feet in Heaven. This world is not our home . . . .unfortunately the masses think so. It is very sad.


3 posted on 03/25/2018 12:32:51 PM PDT by Maudeen (Jesus . . . He Gave His Life for You!)
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To: ReformationFan

I remember this happening. Even though I was a “liberal” at the time, I saw what was happening to a decent woman and was very ashamed of the left. Perhaps it was a turning point for me.


4 posted on 03/25/2018 12:35:34 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Maudeen

78. Most gays don’t live that long.


5 posted on 03/25/2018 12:36:07 PM PDT by brianr10
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To: ReformationFan
One of the Lucky Ones--Anita Bryant (1960)
6 posted on 03/25/2018 12:38:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Wonderland By Night--Anita Bryant (1960)
7 posted on 03/25/2018 12:41:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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She said she does not hate homosexuals.

“My motivation was one of love, of loving my God, my country and my people, even homosexuals,” Bryant said.


This is how the liberals and the media frame issues. From homosexual marriage, to transsexual access to bathrooms/locker rooms, to gays in the military, to transsexuals in the military, to homosexual adoption,

and perhaps other issues,

The liberals always say, that opposition to the gay agenda is due to hatred of the homosexual.

They couldn’t be more wrong, but this media/liberal filtering of the messaging, always is given prominence.

Then we conservative people are put on the defensive, to say, no we don’t hate gays, we aren’t bigots, but we oppose this or that policy for different reasons.

Unfortunately, to then say we oppose certain policies favored by LGBT activists, is too nuanced and wordy for the media and liberals, who tend to want issues boiled down to a bumper sticker slogan, rather than having nuanced discussions of the different aspects of the demands of these activists.


8 posted on 03/25/2018 12:50:58 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Excellent post, very informative. t y 4 posting...


9 posted on 03/25/2018 12:51:37 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ReformationFan

It isn’t just for breakfast anymore.

Best wishes to this American icon.


10 posted on 03/25/2018 12:57:03 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Fiji Hill
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9pRcaYn5SdzolU-AHf9UyOAiRDFioaxz Love this photo of her in the blue dress:
11 posted on 03/25/2018 1:06:10 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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P.S. A playlist of the album to go with it:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9pRcaYn5SdzolU-AHf9UyOAiRDFioaxz


12 posted on 03/25/2018 1:07:15 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: Maudeen

That is soooo true.


13 posted on 03/25/2018 1:10:12 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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Florida Sunshine Tree
14 posted on 03/25/2018 1:10:49 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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This is the commercial I remember the most of her on the airboat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfxYsmpk_X8


15 posted on 03/25/2018 1:14:27 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: Fiji Hill

Canadian Sunset:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK1oQxZ_T68


16 posted on 03/25/2018 1:17:14 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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“Dade County voters repealed the ordinance.”

Anita Bryant probably added 20 years to the Republic. She paid a price as many heroes do.

17 posted on 03/25/2018 1:40:25 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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Faggies hate women. This “activist” acted on it.


18 posted on 03/25/2018 1:49:18 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: ReformationFan

She has pleased God and that is all that matters.


19 posted on 03/25/2018 2:06:56 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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Every time I hear someone put forward the idea of “we need a < fill in minority > spokesperson because the liberals would not dare attack them!” I think of Anita Bryant. And I want to warn that person that they will be attacked viciously and the “men of valor” that sent them out will look for excuses as to why all those attacks are perfectly justified.


20 posted on 03/25/2018 2:10:07 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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