Southern Baptist Leader: You’ll Regret Ridiculing Anita Bryant Because God Is Going To “Have The Last Say”

A Baptist site called The Biblical Reporter has published a lengthy lionizing of the life of recently dead Anita Bryant with a headline which crows that she “foretold the battle against the LGBTQ agenda.” The piece closes with this:

Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, recalled on The Briefing podcast Jan. 13 that he heard Bryant sing in 1977 at a rally at the Miami Beach Convention Center that included Jerry Falwell, who would go on to found the Moral Majority.  The gay rights movement, Mohler said, made Bryant the poster child of opposition to their cause and “an engine for their own political purposes.”

“One of the techniques used to marginalize Anita Bryant was to treat her as a freak show and that’s the threat that same movement would try to apply to every single person who would stand in its way. And if you dare to stand in opposition to that movement, guess what. You will end up on the front page of The New York Times as an obituary and the movement will claim that you deserve the ridicule But let’s remember this, the LBGTQ movement is not going to have the last say.”

Read the full article. There’s actually a decent history of Bryant’s campaign of hate, how it destroyed her personal life, and how it took the city of Miami 21 years to undo it. The piece is apparently being syndicated across Christian sites.

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