Anita Bryant is DEAD!

[xfundy]

Metaphorically speaking, of course.

For some reason, I looked her up on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant

Of course, she has her own "ministry" in the Religion Industry, the most profitable enterprise in the world.

I can't pretend I haven't fantasized about establishing my own franchise — is there an easier way to get rich than profiting off the poor/sick/old/hopeless/delusional/self-hating and being tax-free and untouchable, never having to make good on "guarantees"? NO.

I'm an odd one, though, I guess. I kind of value being able to sleep at night.

[William769]

1. What she did in Florida was and still is inexcusable.

I'll just leave it at that.

[clydefrand]

2. hey, it has worked for the

repubs

[closeupready]

3. World's biggest narcissist:

>>Her marriage to Bob Green also failed at that time, and in 1980 she divorced him, citing emotional abuse and latent suicidal thoughts.[12] Green refused to accept this, saying that his fundamentalist religious beliefs did not recognize civil divorce and that she was "still" his wife "in God's eyes." In 2007, Green stated: "Blame gay people? I do. Their stated goal was to put her out of business and destroy her career. And that's what they did. It's unfair."[13]

Some fundamentalist audiences and venues shunned her after her divorce. As she was no longer invited to appear at their events, she lost another major source of income. With three of her four children, she moved from Miami to Selma, Alabama, and later to Atlanta, Georgia.[12] In a 1980 Ladies Home Journal article she said, "The church needs to wake up and find some way to cope with divorce and women's problems." She also expressed some sympathy for feminist aspirations, given her own experiences of emotional abuse within her previous marriage.[14]
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In a 1980 Ladies Home Journal interview, following her divorce and in the aftermath of her anti-gay activism, Bryant commented on her anti-gay views and said, "I'm more inclined to say live and let live, just don't flaunt it or try to legalize it."[14] However, the biography page on her Anita Bryant Ministries website (written in 2006) continues to defend her earlier anti-gay activism and views.[15]

Following the death of Bryant's former husband Robert Green in 2012, Robert Green Jr. said, "I think she is certainly more willing now to live and let live, I guess. She's about 70, and she's still amazingly energetic, and she would be putting a lot more energy into fighting gay rights if she still felt as strongly."[16] Green added that all of Bryant's four children were more moderate than their parents.<<

[okasha]

4. She tried to destroy LGBT's livelihoods,

and destroyed her own.

She tried to destroy LGBT relationships, and destroyed her own marriage.


Karma, baby.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

5. And

it came with PIE!