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UTC</time></div><div class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Jillian Eugens</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">At a public hearg Da County, Florida, parents were enraged. The natn, they said, was peril and children were at risk. A recent ordance had granted gay people hog and employment protectns, and that meant teachers uldn’t be fired bee of their sexualy. Florida classrooms quickly beme a battleground, and opponents of the ordance said the state’s support of civil rights for homosexuals was gg on their rights as parents. </p><p class="">Actn had to be taken, and a mpaign to lim the legal rights of LGBTQ people — all the name of protectg children — was enacted. A woman who spoke at this hearg said was her right to ntrol “the moral atmosphere which my children grow up.” That woman was Ana Bryant, formerly Miss Oklahoma and a whe, telegenic, Top 40 sger <a href=">who was well known for her Florida orange juice mercials</a> (“A day whout orange juice is like a day whout sunshe!” she’d say). Bryant spearhead an anti-LGBTQ mpaign of such impact that s echo n be heard today’s rhetoric. The year was 1977.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">Last month, nearly half a century after Bryant’s “Save Our Children” mpaign, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by s opponents. The measure, which tak effect July 1, prohibs classroom stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty “krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.” Siar bills are beg nsired 19 other stat, acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ thk tank that has been trackg the bills.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Gov. Ron DeSantis shows an image om the children's book" height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Gov. Ron DeSantis shows an image om the children's book "Call Me Max" by transgenr thor Kyle Loff before signg the Parental Rights Edutn bill Shady Hills, Fla. on March 28.</span><span class="ptn__source">Douglas R. Clifford / Tampa Bay Tim via AP file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Advot of Florida’s bill say s purpose is to allow parents to ci how and when LGBTQ topics are troduced to their children. Opponents say hurts the very children advot are tryg to protect. Sam Am, director of advocy and ernment affairs at The Trevor Project, a queer youth advocy group, <a href=">said a statement</a> that the bill will “erase young LGBTQ stunts across Florida, forcg many back to the closet by policg their inty and silencg important discsns about the issu they face.” </p><p class="">Historians say they’ve seen this before. </p><p class="">“It’s a ntemporary versn on the olr attempts to annul homosexualy,” said <a href=">Lillian Farman</a>, thor of “The Gay Revolutn,” among other queer history tl.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“In the prent environment, you n’t go after homosexual teachers anymore,” Farman said. “We have too many alli. And so Florida has found another way to do by this ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, which don’t go after homosexual teachers precisely. But the ia is the same. That is, that homosexualy is a pariah stat, and shouldn’t be discsed the public schools.” </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Ana Bryant" height="1650" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Sger-turned-polil activist Ana Bryant speaks at a news nference Miami Beach, Fla. on June 7, 1977.</span><span class="ptn__source">Bettmann via Getty Imag file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">When Bryant began her mpaign 1977, she had four children, and often said she was speakg as a mother and a Christian. And while the villaizatn of LGBTQ people was not new, Bryant took the ia of protectg children and ma mastream. Her mpaign and the subsequent “Save Our Children” polil aln ed the argument that “homosexuals nnot reproduce, so they mt rec. And to hen their ranks, they mt rec the youth of Ameri.” </p><p class="">Bryant’s foc on the ia that LGBTQ people were threateng to children created a talkg pot that social nservativ were able to rally around and promote to their iends and neighbors. Bryant paired this wh her Christian fah, tellg <a href=">Playboy</a> magaze 1978 that her posn “was not taken out of homophobia, but out of love” for gay people. When a gay activist threw a pie her face durg a news nference, she immediately prayed for the man to be “livered om his viant liftyle.”</p><sectn class="embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium"><div class="embed-widget__e-prentatn embed-widget__iamely-youtube" style="--iame-height:0px"><div><div class="iamely-youtube iamely-player iamely-embed"><div class="iamely-rponsive" style="paddg-bottom: 75%;"><iame data-src=" loadg="lazy" src="//" allowfullscreen scrollg="no" allow="accelerometer *; clipboard-wre *; encrypted-media *; gyrospe *; picture--picture *;"></iame></div></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">“Deviance” was part of Bryant’s re argument that homosexualy was evil and that LGBTQ people didn’t serve rights. To award them nondiscrimatn protectn was to offer them a kd of special privilege. If we label homosexualy a civil rights issue, what is to stop “<a href=">the murrer om shoutg ‘murrer rights’”?</a> Bryant wrote her 1977 book, “The Ana Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Natn’s Fai and the Threat of Milant Homosexualy.”</p><p class="">Bryant’s work rulted the repeal of the Da County nondiscrimatn ordance, by a more than 2-to-1 marg, a voter referendum. Its repeal ed a backlash other stat that had passed siar ordanc, and Bryant’s fame grew. She took her msage across the untry, and for the next three years was named “The Most Admired Woman Ameri” Good Hoekeepg’s annual poll.</p><p class="">While Bryant fueled the ia that gays were harmful to children, the blueprt for this type of rhetoric had been laid nearly 20 years before, also the state of Florida.</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src="></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="137664581787"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">1977: Ana Bryant vot to repeal Da County’s gay rights law</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>June 7, 1977</span><span>01:17</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=1977: Ana Bryant vot to repeal Da County’s gay rights law& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">The Florida Legislative Invtigatn Commtee (monly referred to as the Johns Commtee, after Charley Johns, s first chairman) was tablished 1956, and was born out of opposn to the segregatn of schools and the pursu of “munists.” The mtee first targeted the NAACP but was stopped by the Supreme Court. The mtee then turned to vtigatg alleged munists Florida schools, but was stopped by the Amerin Associatn of Universy Profsors. They need a new target, and the fall of 1958, the mtee began to vtigate — and elimate — LGBTQ people om Florida schools. There was no urt and no associatn to protect them. The mtee was well-fund by taxpayer dollars. School prcipals and universy prints operated. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“Charley Johns’s argument was that of, the homosexuals are pervertg our youth bee they’re teachg our youth llege, and high school, and elementary school, and we have to get rid of them so they won’t turn young people to homosexuals,” Farman said. From 1958 to 1965, hundreds — if not thoands — of stunts and teachers were targeted, wh many losg their livelihoods. </p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">Though the mtee was terred om s vtigatn to the NAACP, s roots opposn to segregatn and s evolutn om racist opposn to homophobic opprsn is clear, historians say. </p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">“The Christian right really together on enforcg segregatn the 1960s. It’s about anti-Black racism; that’s largely where starts. And they’ve h on this ia that they’re protectg children and tn,” said Hugh Ryan, a historian and thor of “When Brooklyn Was Queer.” “They realize that this works, that this is the issue that will create a ‘polil moral majory.’” </p><p class="">By the time we get to Ana Bryant 1977, Ryan said, “they’ve already realized that they n harns this polil nservatism and attach to relign by talkg about the fay.” </p><h2 class=""><strong>Bryant 'won the battle' but lost 'the war'</strong></h2><p class="">Though the Da County ordance was repealed, opposn to the bill led to a kd of LGBTQ activism that had not been prevly seen South Florida. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“The thg to remember is that Ana Bryant won that battle ially, but she did not w that war,” said the historian Jul Capó Jr., a native Floridian, who wrote “Wele to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940.”  </p><p class="">He said Bryant advertently spurred a mobilizatn and a movement. </p><p class="">“It was transformative,” Capó said. “It got people to see themselv as a votg bloc. It got them to see that their very existence and their rights were very much unr attack a different way than we had seen the prr.” </p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src="></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="137664069755"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">1977: After victory at polls, Ana Bryant discs takg anti-gay mpaign on the road</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>June 8, 1977</span><span>01:18</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=1977: After victory at polls, Ana Bryant discs takg anti-gay mpaign on the road& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">The activism spread om Da County and across the untry, phg agast Bryant’s own “Christian csa,” as she lled . In 1977, the -executive directors of the Natnal Gay Task Force wrote a thank you <a href="> The New York Tim</a> to Bryant and her Save Our Children anizatn, sayg they were “dog the 20 ln lbians and gay men Ameri an enormo favor: They are focg for the public the nature of the prejudice and discrimatn we face.” </p><p class="">Though Bryant did enjoy some addnal years of fame, her anti-gay rhetoric ultimately ed her reer prospects to plummet. Her bookg agent dropped her, the Florida Cs Commissn stopped nng her orange juice ads and she filed for bankptcy — twice. The anti-discrimatn ordance she helped repeal 1977 <a href=">was rtored 1998</a>.</p><p class="">And today, even though state legislators ntue to chip away at LGBTQ rights, same-sex marriage is legal across the untry and feral law prohibs anti-LGBTQ discrimatn the workplace.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Image: People celebrate ont of the Supreme Court after the lg favor of same-sex marriage June 26, 2015." height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">People celebrate ont of the Supreme Court after the lg favor of same-sex marriage on June 26, 2015.</span><span class="ptn__source">Mark Wilson / Getty Imag file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Though the tim have changed signifintly sce Bryant’s heyday the late ‘70s, appears her views have not. In 2021, Bryant’s granddghter Sarah Green <a href=">told Slate</a> that she me out to her grandmother on her 21st birthday. Bryant reportedly rpond by sayg homosexualy isn’t real. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“It’s very hard to argue wh someone who thks that an tegral part of your inty is jt an evil ln,” Green said. Green, <a href=">who clarified to </a><a href="><em></em></a> that she is bisexual, told Slate about her upg weddg to her fiancée, a woman, and said she wasn’t sure if her grandmother would be attendg.  </p><p class="">“I jt kd of feel bad for her,” Green add. “And I thk as much as she hop that I will figure thgs out and e back to God, I kd of hope that she’ll figure thgs out.”</p><p class="">Bryant, now 82, no longer liv Florida. She returned to her home state of Oklahoma and ns Ana Bryant Mistri Internatnal. 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WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.

The gay cis promise fun activi, excellent entertament and erari to tertg statns around the world. * gay crusade *

Anti-LGTBQ+ hate crim are on the perhaps most importantly, numero Republin-domated state legislatur, anti-gay legislatn has been enacted, nng the gamut om prohibns on genr-affirmg therapi for kids to bans on drag events and discsns of genr inti public schools. Pollg shows ltle evince of a reversal public opn when to support for LGBT several years which the polil bate around gay rights subsid, and Pri march and Pri Month celebratns beme largely unntroversial affairs, would seem that the Uned Stat is the midst of a natnwi backlash on an issue that appeared to be yet, spe the GOP’s vastatg bigotry, mastream acceptance of gay Amerins has never been stronger.

Pollg om jt last year shows that 8 10 Amerins oppose anti-gay discrimatn employment, hog and public acmodatns (and that clus nearly two-thirds of Republins) Congrs, last year’s landmark Rpect for Marriage Act, which provid feral protectn for same-sex marriag, was supported by 12 Republin senators and 39 GOP Hoe members (along wh every Democrat both chambers).

In the 2022 electn, Republin ndidat blue and purple stat who ran on a msage of hostily to LGBTQ+ rights, particularly anti-transgenr ads, fared, was not long ago that open and public homophobia was as owned upon as public displays of racism and misogyny.

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When Rev. Jerry Falwell met wh a group of gay Christians recently, he found himself the unual posn of beg on the receivg end of anti-gay protts. One protter — the Rev. Fred Phelps of Topeka — went so far as to say that Falwell would burn hell for vg gays to attend Sunday servic his church.  * gay crusade *

Havg largely kept their homophobia check, bee of prevailg social norms, they received tac permissn om Republins to leave their closets and broan their attacks to gay rights wr foc on trans kids has bee a GOP stalkg horse for Republin voters foced on “tradnal valu.

”Acrdg to Evan Wolfson — a longtime gay rights activist and founr of Freedom To Marry, which advot for same-sex marriage — while trans issu are not as well unrstood by the broar public as an issue like same-sex marriage, the GOP’s “attacks on trans people is jt part of the overall stokg of divisn and rentment. Both have ltle to do wh protectg trans kids but everythg to do wh the hatred of gay people and what their acceptance Amerin society reprents.

POLAND’S ANTI-GAY CSA: “THE MOST AGGRSIVE HOMOPHOBIC MPAIGN I HAVE SEEN MY LIFE”

Camp Csa for Christ, one of Ameri’s largt chary anizatns, is famo for spreadg the ‘Good News’ at lleg. But ls is known about s anti-gay work overseas. * gay crusade *

” Red-state policians ph anti-gay legislatn both bee ’s popular wh their most engaged nstuents, and bee they have ltle fear of an electoral backlash led by pro-gay rights voters. So like abortn and votg rights, gay rights have bee yet another issue that magnifi the growg blue state/red state divi which where you live creasgly term how many rights you daily stori of anti-Pri actns are prsg, even if they reprent a vol mory. For s, the William Way LGBT Communy Center has sat at the heart of Philalphia’s gayborhood, offerg art shows, unselg servic, vacce clics and a slew of other health and hog assistance to rints as the center’s agg headquarters started to show s wear, s lears turned to Washgton for some help.

8 ln feral aid for renovatns — until Hoe Republins mounted an extraordary blocka this week, nyg a requt to fund the anizatn and other lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr-foced groups two last year’s electns, Republin lawmakers creasgly have seized on the power of the feral purse, uplg their csa for stery wh a fierce ph to advance a nservative social agenda. In state legislatur across the untry, party lawmakers recently have moved to adopt a rerd number of rtrictns that lim gay and transgenr rights, while the GOP’s printial ndidat have attacked transgenr athlet and rebed schools that teach about genr inty.

Lookg back on this enunter, I n see that had all the trappgs of what beme known as the ex-gay movement, of which I was once an eager proponent. Alan Medger, the first executive director of Exod Internatnal, scribed as “a change self-perceptn which the dividual no longer intifi him- or herself as homosexual. Recent bat among nservative Anglins and Prbyterians over whether someone n claim a “gay inty” are only the latt round of siar disput that have echoed church rridors for years.

THE CHRISTIAN DO-GOORS SECRETLY ATTACKG GAYSTOXIC BLENDCAMP CSA FOR CHRIST, ONE OF AMERI’S LARGT CHARY ANIZATNS, IS FAMO FOR SPREADG THE ‘GOOD NEWS’ AT LLEG. BUT LS IS KNOWN ABOUT S ANTI-GAY WORK OVERSEAS.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 3:25PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 07, 2014 5:45AM EDT DENIS FARRELL/APLIKE MANY A DAILY BEAST REAR, I FOUND CAMP CSA FOR CHRIST TO BE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ANNOYG AND AMG. YOU REMEMBER THEM OM LLEGE: THE J EAKS, TENT ON SPREADG THE “GOOD NEWS,” SOMEWHERE BETWEEN QUAT AND CREEPY.TURNS OUT, CCC—NOW REBRAND, LUDICROLY, AS “C”—IS A MASSIVE ANIZATN, AND VOLVED SOME OF THE MEANT HOMOPHOBIA-FOR-EXPORT AI. NOT SO AMG ANYMORE.REMARKABLY, CCC IS NO. 20 ON FORB MAGAZE’S LIST OF THE LARGT CHARY ANIZATNS AMERI, WH $548 LN ANNUAL RECEIPTS 2013, $503 LN OF WHICH ARE DONATNS. (PRUMABLY THE RT ARE C-BRAND SWEATSHIRTS.) THIS IS AN IMPRSIVE ACHIEVEMENT, TO PUT DLY—MOST OF THE OTHER TOP 20 ARE HOEHOLD NAM SUCH AS UNED WAY AND THE SALVATN ARMY.AS S FORMER NAME IMPLI, C IS BT KNOWN FOR S MP OUTREACH: BIBLE STUDY GROUPS AND THE LIKE. BUT ALSO HAS A POWERFUL TERNATNAL ARM—THERE ARE A LOT MORE ELIGIBLE NVERTS AI THAN AT YOUR TYPIL LLEGE KEGGER, AFTER ALL—WHICH NS MISSNARY WORK AND NFERENC. ON MARCH 22, 2013, ONE OF THOSE NFERENC, PAMOJA III, ATTEND BY 300 AIN LLEGE STUNTS AND PTURED ON YOUTUBE, FEATURED DR. SEYOUM ANTONS, TRODUCED WH ENTHIASM BY CCC’S VICE PRINT OF GLOBAL CHURCH MOVEMENTS, BEKELE SHANKO. HAVG BEEN PRAISED BY C’S VICE PRINT, ANTONS SPEWED A TOXIC BLEND OF U.S. ANTI-GAY TALKG POTS, THE IRONIC NTEXT OF FIGHTG U.S. IMPERIALISM.AMONG THE TAKEAWAYS OM ANTONS’S PRENTATN: THIRTY-THREE PERCENT OF HOMOSEXUALS ARE PEDOPHIL, GAY UPL ARE G TO AI TO STEAL CHILDREN AND TURN THEM HOMOSEXUAL, HOMOSEXUALY IS A WTERN PLOT TO KILL AINS, AND GAY PEOPLE ARE 15 TIM MORE LIKELY TO BE MURRERS THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE.FORTUNATELY, ANTONS SAID, ETHPIA WILL BEE A “GRAVEYARD FOR HOMOSEXUALY.”NOW, THERE ARE HOMOPHOB EVERYWHERE. BUT ANTONS IS A POWERFUL HOMOPHOBE. HE IS THE HEAD OF UNED FOR LIFE ETHPIA, A UNTRY THAT WAS NSIRG CREASG THE PENALTY FOR THE “CRIME” OF HOMOSEXUALY—UNTIL DID AN ABOUT-FACE APRIL AFTER THE FIRTORM UGANDA. ANTONS, LIKE HIS RA ARMS MART SSEMPA UGANDA, HAS LLED FOR THE ATH PENALTY.NOR IS ANTONS SOME KD OF LONE WOLF. ON THE NTRARY, AS DISVERED BY DR. KAPYA KAOMA OF THE THK TANK POLIL REARCH ASSOCIAT (WHERE I HAVE WORKED THE PAST, ON OTHER ISSU), HE AND CCC ARE PART OF, Y, A VAST RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY TO EXPORT HOMOPHOBIA TO AI AND FIGHT THE CULTURE WARS ON POTENTIALLY WNG (AND DONOR-PLEASG) TURF.THE AMERIN CENTER FOR LAW AND JTICE, FOUND BY PAT ROBERTSON AS AN ANSWER TO THE ACLU, HAS SET UP OFFIC KENYA AND ZIMBABWE TO “UPHOLD PRO-LIFE AND PRO-FAY VALU,” THE FORMER APPARENTLY CLUDG THE ATH PENALTY FOR NSENSUAL SEX.AND THE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM, THE FOLKS BEHD THE “TURN THE GAYS AWAY” BILL AND A KEY PART OF THE HOBBY LOBBY ALN, HAS LED NUMERO PROGRAMS AND NFERENC AI TO WARN UNSPECTG AINS ABOUT THE “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA.” AT ONE NFERENCE, THE ADF SAID, ANA BRYANT-STYLE, THAT THIS AGENDA CLUS “RECG CHILDREN.”CCC—SORRY, C—IS AT ONCE BETTER KNOWN AND LSER KNOWN THAN THE GROUPS. IT HAS A BRAND THAT FAR MORE PEOPLE REGNIZE, AND A BUDGET DWARFG THE OTHERS’. (CCC DO NOT REVEAL HOW MUCH OF S BUDGET IS SPENT ON OVERSEAS ACTIVI.) AT THE SAME TIME, WHEN PROGRSIV ROLL OFF THE NAM OF THEIR UAL FO—FAY REARCH COUNCIL, HUMAN LIFE INTERNATNAL, FAY WATCH INTERNATNAL, AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN, THE BECKET FUND—CAMP CSA FOR CHRIST IS NOT UALLY AMONG THEM. ITS MEMBERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE EARNT CHRISTIANS, PREACHG THE GOSPEL BUT NOT FOMENTG HATE AROUND THE WORLD.MOREOVER, MOST OF S ANTI-GAY WORK TAK PLACE FAR OUTSI THE SPOTLIGHT. CONSIR ANTONS HIMSELF. WOULD ANYONE KNOW ABOUT HIS BIL SPEECH HAD NOT BEEN PUBLICIZED BY THE ADVOCY ANIZATN TTH WS OUT AND GRADUALLY MA S WAY THROUGH THE LGBT PRS? NEEDLS TO SAY, THIS IS THE FIRST MASTREAM MEDIA VERAGE ANTONS HAS RECEIVED. HOW MANY MORE SUCH EVENTS ARE HELD WHOUT MOST OF THE WORLD KNOWG?NOR IS THIS CCC’S FIRST FORAY TO AIN HOMOPHOBIA. IT’S NO CINCE THAT ANTONS’ SPEECH WAS EERILY FAIAR TO THE ONE GIVEN BY SSEMPA UGANDA WHICH SSEMPA MEMORABLY SISTED THAT ALL GAY PEOPLE “EAT THE POO POO,” WHICH HE VIVIDLY PANTOMIMED HIS SPEECH. ACRDG TO TTH WS OUT, CCC HAS BEEN ACTIVE UGANDA FOR MORE THAN A , BRGG HOLOT REVISNIST-TURNED-ANTI-GAY ZEALOT STT LIVELY TO THE UNTRY 2002.THERE IS A GROWG MYTH THAT ADVANC LGBT EQUALY HERE THE UNED STAT HAVE LED TO A BACKLASH OVERSEAS. BUT THIS “BACKLASH” HAS BEEN ENGEERED BY THE SAME FAR-RIGHT NSERVATIV WHO HAVE LOST THE CULTURE WAR HERE THE U.S. AND WHO FD SYMPATHETIC EARS AMONG THORARIAN REGIM PLAC LIKE RSIA AND UGANDA. THIS ISN’T A BACKLASH—’S A BACKUP PLAN.AND MANY PLAC, ’S WORKG. CAMP C-SA FOR CHRIST MAY SEEM HARMLS ENOUGH—BUT TELL THAT TO THE LATT VICTIM OF VLENCE WHERE S PREACHERS ARE PREACHG HATE. JAY MICHAELSON

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Before there was an ex-gay paradigm of cure, there was an olr orthodoxy that clud a Christian paradigm of rg for believers who aren’t straight. In the bgraphy Wound Prophet, Michael Ford documents how Nouwen discsed his experience as a celibate gay man wh his close circle of iends. As Stott wrote Issu Facg Christians Today back 1982, “In every discsn about homosexualy we mt be rigoro differentiatg between this ‘beg’ and ‘dog, ’ that is, between a person’s inty and activy, sexual preference and sexual practice, nstutn and nduct.

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UTC</time></div><div class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Jillian Eugens</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">At a public hearg Da County, Florida, parents were enraged. The natn, they said, was peril and children were at risk. A recent ordance had granted gay people hog and employment protectns, and that meant teachers uldn’t be fired bee of their sexualy. Florida classrooms quickly beme a battleground, and opponents of the ordance said the state’s support of civil rights for homosexuals was gg on their rights as parents. </p><p class="">Actn had to be taken, and a mpaign to lim the legal rights of LGBTQ people — all the name of protectg children — was enacted. A woman who spoke at this hearg said was her right to ntrol “the moral atmosphere which my children grow up.” That woman was Ana Bryant, formerly Miss Oklahoma and a whe, telegenic, Top 40 sger <a href=">who was well known for her Florida orange juice mercials</a> (“A day whout orange juice is like a day whout sunshe!” she’d say). Bryant spearhead an anti-LGBTQ mpaign of such impact that s echo n be heard today’s rhetoric. The year was 1977.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">Last month, nearly half a century after Bryant’s “Save Our Children” mpaign, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by s opponents. The measure, which tak effect July 1, prohibs classroom stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty “krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.” Siar bills are beg nsired 19 other stat, acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ thk tank that has been trackg the bills.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Gov. Ron DeSantis shows an image om the children's book" height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Gov. Ron DeSantis shows an image om the children's book "Call Me Max" by transgenr thor Kyle Loff before signg the Parental Rights Edutn bill Shady Hills, Fla. on March 28.</span><span class="ptn__source">Douglas R. Clifford / Tampa Bay Tim via AP file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Advot of Florida’s bill say s purpose is to allow parents to ci how and when LGBTQ topics are troduced to their children. Opponents say hurts the very children advot are tryg to protect. Sam Am, director of advocy and ernment affairs at The Trevor Project, a queer youth advocy group, <a href=">said a statement</a> that the bill will “erase young LGBTQ stunts across Florida, forcg many back to the closet by policg their inty and silencg important discsns about the issu they face.” </p><p class="">Historians say they’ve seen this before. </p><p class="">“It’s a ntemporary versn on the olr attempts to annul homosexualy,” said <a href=">Lillian Farman</a>, thor of “The Gay Revolutn,” among other queer history tl.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“In the prent environment, you n’t go after homosexual teachers anymore,” Farman said. “We have too many alli. And so Florida has found another way to do by this ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, which don’t go after homosexual teachers precisely. But the ia is the same. That is, that homosexualy is a pariah stat, and shouldn’t be discsed the public schools.” </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Ana Bryant" height="1650" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Sger-turned-polil activist Ana Bryant speaks at a news nference Miami Beach, Fla. on June 7, 1977.</span><span class="ptn__source">Bettmann via Getty Imag file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">When Bryant began her mpaign 1977, she had four children, and often said she was speakg as a mother and a Christian. And while the villaizatn of LGBTQ people was not new, Bryant took the ia of protectg children and ma mastream. Her mpaign and the subsequent “Save Our Children” polil aln ed the argument that “homosexuals nnot reproduce, so they mt rec. And to hen their ranks, they mt rec the youth of Ameri.” </p><p class="">Bryant’s foc on the ia that LGBTQ people were threateng to children created a talkg pot that social nservativ were able to rally around and promote to their iends and neighbors. Bryant paired this wh her Christian fah, tellg <a href=">Playboy</a> magaze 1978 that her posn “was not taken out of homophobia, but out of love” for gay people. When a gay activist threw a pie her face durg a news nference, she immediately prayed for the man to be “livered om his viant liftyle.”</p><sectn class="embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium"><div class="embed-widget__e-prentatn embed-widget__iamely-youtube" style="--iame-height:0px"><div><div class="iamely-youtube iamely-player iamely-embed"><div class="iamely-rponsive" style="paddg-bottom: 75%;"><iame data-src=" loadg="lazy" src="//" allowfullscreen scrollg="no" allow="accelerometer *; clipboard-wre *; encrypted-media *; gyrospe *; picture--picture *;"></iame></div></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">“Deviance” was part of Bryant’s re argument that homosexualy was evil and that LGBTQ people didn’t serve rights. To award them nondiscrimatn protectn was to offer them a kd of special privilege. If we label homosexualy a civil rights issue, what is to stop “<a href=">the murrer om shoutg ‘murrer rights’”?</a> Bryant wrote her 1977 book, “The Ana Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Natn’s Fai and the Threat of Milant Homosexualy.”</p><p class="">Bryant’s work rulted the repeal of the Da County nondiscrimatn ordance, by a more than 2-to-1 marg, a voter referendum. Its repeal ed a backlash other stat that had passed siar ordanc, and Bryant’s fame grew. She took her msage across the untry, and for the next three years was named “The Most Admired Woman Ameri” Good Hoekeepg’s annual poll.</p><p class="">While Bryant fueled the ia that gays were harmful to children, the blueprt for this type of rhetoric had been laid nearly 20 years before, also the state of Florida.</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src="></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="137664581787"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">1977: Ana Bryant vot to repeal Da County’s gay rights law</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>June 7, 1977</span><span>01:17</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=1977: Ana Bryant vot to repeal Da County’s gay rights law& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">The Florida Legislative Invtigatn Commtee (monly referred to as the Johns Commtee, after Charley Johns, s first chairman) was tablished 1956, and was born out of opposn to the segregatn of schools and the pursu of “munists.” The mtee first targeted the NAACP but was stopped by the Supreme Court. The mtee then turned to vtigatg alleged munists Florida schools, but was stopped by the Amerin Associatn of Universy Profsors. They need a new target, and the fall of 1958, the mtee began to vtigate — and elimate — LGBTQ people om Florida schools. There was no urt and no associatn to protect them. The mtee was well-fund by taxpayer dollars. School prcipals and universy prints operated. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“Charley Johns’s argument was that of, the homosexuals are pervertg our youth bee they’re teachg our youth llege, and high school, and elementary school, and we have to get rid of them so they won’t turn young people to homosexuals,” Farman said. From 1958 to 1965, hundreds — if not thoands — of stunts and teachers were targeted, wh many losg their livelihoods. </p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">Though the mtee was terred om s vtigatn to the NAACP, s roots opposn to segregatn and s evolutn om racist opposn to homophobic opprsn is clear, historians say. </p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">“The Christian right really together on enforcg segregatn the 1960s. It’s about anti-Black racism; that’s largely where starts. And they’ve h on this ia that they’re protectg children and tn,” said Hugh Ryan, a historian and thor of “When Brooklyn Was Queer.” “They realize that this works, that this is the issue that will create a ‘polil moral majory.’” </p><p class="">By the time we get to Ana Bryant 1977, Ryan said, “they’ve already realized that they n harns this polil nservatism and attach to relign by talkg about the fay.” </p><h2 class=""><strong>Bryant 'won the battle' but lost 'the war'</strong></h2><p class="">Though the Da County ordance was repealed, opposn to the bill led to a kd of LGBTQ activism that had not been prevly seen South Florida. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“The thg to remember is that Ana Bryant won that battle ially, but she did not w that war,” said the historian Jul Capó Jr., a native Floridian, who wrote “Wele to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940.”  </p><p class="">He said Bryant advertently spurred a mobilizatn and a movement. </p><p class="">“It was transformative,” Capó said. “It got people to see themselv as a votg bloc. It got them to see that their very existence and their rights were very much unr attack a different way than we had seen the prr.” </p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src="></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="137664069755"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">1977: After victory at polls, Ana Bryant discs takg anti-gay mpaign on the road</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>June 8, 1977</span><span>01:18</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=1977: After victory at polls, Ana Bryant discs takg anti-gay mpaign on the road& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">The activism spread om Da County and across the untry, phg agast Bryant’s own “Christian csa,” as she lled . In 1977, the -executive directors of the Natnal Gay Task Force wrote a thank you <a href="> The New York Tim</a> to Bryant and her Save Our Children anizatn, sayg they were “dog the 20 ln lbians and gay men Ameri an enormo favor: They are focg for the public the nature of the prejudice and discrimatn we face.” </p><p class="">Though Bryant did enjoy some addnal years of fame, her anti-gay rhetoric ultimately ed her reer prospects to plummet. Her bookg agent dropped her, the Florida Cs Commissn stopped nng her orange juice ads and she filed for bankptcy — twice. The anti-discrimatn ordance she helped repeal 1977 <a href=">was rtored 1998</a>.</p><p class="">And today, even though state legislators ntue to chip away at LGBTQ rights, same-sex marriage is legal across the untry and feral law prohibs anti-LGBTQ discrimatn the workplace.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Image: People celebrate ont of the Supreme Court after the lg favor of same-sex marriage June 26, 2015." height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">People celebrate ont of the Supreme Court after the lg favor of same-sex marriage on June 26, 2015.</span><span class="ptn__source">Mark Wilson / Getty Imag file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Though the tim have changed signifintly sce Bryant’s heyday the late ‘70s, appears her views have not. In 2021, Bryant’s granddghter Sarah Green <a href=">told Slate</a> that she me out to her grandmother on her 21st birthday. Bryant reportedly rpond by sayg homosexualy isn’t real. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“It’s very hard to argue wh someone who thks that an tegral part of your inty is jt an evil ln,” Green said. Green, <a href=">who clarified to </a><a href="><em></em></a> that she is bisexual, told Slate about her upg weddg to her fiancée, a woman, and said she wasn’t sure if her grandmother would be attendg.  </p><p class="">“I jt kd of feel bad for her,” Green add. “And I thk as much as she hop that I will figure thgs out and e back to God, I kd of hope that she’ll figure thgs out.”</p><p class="">Bryant, now 82, no longer liv Florida. She returned to her home state of Oklahoma and ns Ana Bryant Mistri Internatnal. 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