Monday, March 28, 2011
The Survival of Our Nation's Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality. What?!?!
Doing some outside reading of Anita Bryant's experiences from her own perspective in her book The Anita Bryant Story was... Educational shall we say? I now know what it sounds like when someone takes an issue to an extreme, fiery, and religious extent. And it's pretty disturbing! The fact that she made herself and her group, Save Our Children, into the victims of the debate was just pathetic really as she painted pictures of the U.S. falling under the rule of a homosexual fourth Reich. Her fears of gay/lesbian teachers affecting the growth and development of children everywhere are baseless and obviously come from an un-educated, personal disdain which really gives Religion a bad name. The way she groups homosexuals with pornography, abortion, drugs and alcohol is also rude and unjust as homosexuality just isn't up there on the list of arguable sins. The fact that she turns any molehill such as criticism against her or the group into mountains is also wrong as conservatives directed and continue to direct more fire upon pro-homosexual rights groups than vice versa. All in all, her book was just a big publicity stunt which was directed solely at pumping up her own image. For example, how she is made out to be a real crusader who has sacrificed everything she had for this awesome goal. First of all, she was a celebrity. A talented performer, and a homemaker. Those aren't really titles which make me think of someone who is at risk of losing everything. Going back to the group itself, the group's name itself is pretty awful. The fact is, homosexuals aren't a danger to children, so saying in an indirect way that homosexuals are a danger to children is an unfair attack upon the characters of gays and lesbians.
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