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6 The Tar Heel 7 Thursday, July 21, 1977
Anita Bryant from orange juice to chasing gays
By Bernadine Ward
Editor's note: The following column was
run out of sequence in last week's Tar HeeL
We therefore are reprinting the article in its
entirety this week.
At first glance, the lady (flanked by her
children) is singing about orange juice
pure, wholesome, natural; she appears to be
serene and calm. Appearances, especially in
this case can be deceptive, for the lady is fire.
Anita Bryant's fanaticism about orange juice
has carried over into a new realm. Now,
instead of rallying about round, seeded pulp,
she attacks those deemed as "sexually
abnormal."
Everyone, regardless of his feelings about
Anita Bryant, must admit that she deserves
appLiuse for the - methods she -. used : to
overturn a Dade County (Florida)
ordinance. This ordinance would have
prohibited housing and employment
discrimination based on sexual affections or
preference.
The methodology: appeal to emotions,
not facts, get a Bible, associate with fire and
brimstone preachers, shed buckets of tears,
and there you have it the perfect scenario.
This, however, is not a play and its
consequences to homosexuals is reality.
Author Merle Miller, a homosexual was
quoted in Newsweek as saying "We maybe
moving to another McCarthy era; this time
the enemy won't be Communism it will be
sex.- "; ' ' ' .
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Sure enough, there has been, according to
Bruce Vaelley, co-executive director of the
National Gay Task Force, a "flurry of firings
of homosexuals in Dade County." In
addition, Oklahoma has passed a resolution
endorsing Bryant's position. Not
surprisingly, Bryant and her merry, Bible
spouting crusaders may go national.
Even before the ordinance's defeat, a
group in Los Angeles supported capital
punishment for homosexuals and issued
literature to this effect and a fire in a gay New
York bathhouse killed nine men and injured
10 others. This is not to say that Bryant
endorsed these acts, but her . irrational
.reactions concerning homosexuality
certainly do not help the situation?
Bryant did not defeat the ordinance alone;
she did it with the help;of thousands of
Miamians who, though rightfully concerned
about the effect homosexuality would have
on children, were gullible enough to be swept
into Bryant's unjustifiable viciousness
towards those not heterosexual.
The orange juice songster claims she does
not hate homosexuals', just homosexuality.
But how it is possible to separate a human
from a personality that defines him I don't
know. Despite her professed "love" for gays,
Bryant has called them "human garbage"
and believes that "Miami's
antidiscrimination law could protect the
right to have intercourse with beasts." 1 find
it extremely difficult to believe that Bryant
has fond affections for garbage and beasts.
Bryant and her sheep, I mean followers,
argue that "homosexuals would use the
schools to influence children in favor of
homosexuality or perhaps even to molest
them." However, Dr. C. A. Tripp, author of
The Homosexual Matrix, reported that no
evidence that role models (in this case
teachers) do any recruiting or that they affect
sexual orientation in any way, exists.
Interestingly, much evidence proves the
opposite. It is believed that sexual
orientation is established by age 5 and
earlier before children start school.
of parents who rape their children and force
them to appear in pornographic films and
magazines? Is it because these parents and
perpetrators of such crimes are heterosexual
and therefore automatically classified as
"normal" that society is so slow in
prosecuting them?
Using Biblical interpretations to deny
human rights has occurred throughout
history. This device was used as a
justification for the oppression of Indians,
blacks and women; it has been used to
support segregation policies in America and
Despite her professed "love" for gays, Bryant has called them
"human garbage" and believes that "Miami's antidiscrimination
law could protect the right to have intercourse with beasts"
Obviously, any homosexual instructor
who approaches or attacks children should
be dismissed, but so should heterosexuals
who engage in these practices.
Is Bryant really so concerned with "Saving
Our Children," or is she using them to act out
her desires to rid society of what she
considers filth? Surely there are other areas
of child welfare that need to be addressed
immediately.
The U.S. News and World Report
informed its readers that in 1975 alone "more
than 200,000 American boys and girls, most
below 5, died last year as a result of abuse by
adults." And what of the thousands of cases
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abroad, Bryant uses passages from Romans,
Corinthians, and Leviticus in her efforts to
ascertain that homosexuals are deprived of
everything heterosexuals, by virtue of their
sexual preference, are accorded.
That she prejudges all homosexuals as
possible child molesters is an absurdity.
Studies confirm that the majority of sexual
attacks on children are heterosexual, not
homosexual. The right to employment,
education, housing; freedom between
consenting adults life- is the crux of the
gay controversy, whether we want to believe
it or not.
If one must oppose homosexuality, let the
opposition have its basis on sound, logical
reasoning, and proof of its detriment.
Let it not, like Anita Bryant's, be simply
based on passages from a book even if it is
the Bible.
Bernadine Ward is a senior RTVMP-Afro-American
Studies major from
Fountain, N.C.
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