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Revelation 14: 7 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. 8And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 8And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

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Anita Bryant (orchestrated movements)

Anita Bryant

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Anita Bryant
Birth name Anita Jane Bryant
Born March 25, 1940 (1940-03-25) (age 70)
Origin Barnsdall, Oklahoma
Genres Pop music
Years active 1956–1977
Labels Carlton, Columbia, Word
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer, former beauty queen and gay rights opponent. She scored four Top 40 hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Paper Roses", which reached #5. She later became widely known for her strong views against homosexuality and for her prominent campaigning in 1977 to repeal a local ordinance in Dade County, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, an involvement that significantly damaged her popularity and performance career.[1]

Contents

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Early life and career

 This section does not cite any references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2008)
Bryant was born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma. Soon after her sister Sandra was born, her mother and father divorced. Her father went into the U.S. Army and her mother went to work, taking her children to live with their grandparents temporarily. When Bryant was two years old, her grandfather taught her to sing "Jesus Loves Me". She was singing at the age of six onstage on local fairgrounds in Oklahoma. She sang occasionally on radio and television, and was invited to audition when Arthur Godfrey's talent show came to town. Her father at first refused to allow her to go on Godfrey's show, relenting only when he was told that it would be a sin for his daughter not to share her talent.[citation needed]
Bryant became Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and was a second runner-up in the 1959 Miss America beauty pageant at age 19, right after graduating from Tulsa's Will Rogers High School.
In 1960, she married Bob Green, a Miami disc jockey, with whom she eventually raised four children: Robert Jr. (Bobby), Gloria, Billy, and Barbara. She appeared early in her career on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood and on the same network's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.
"Paper Roses"
"Little Things Mean a Lot"
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Bryant placed a total of eleven songs on the U.S. Hot 100, although most were at the bottom reaches of the chart. She had a moderate pop hit with "Till There Was You" (1959, US #30). She also saw three hits in "Paper Roses" (1960, US #5, and covered by Marie Osmond 13 years later); "In My Little Corner of the World" (1960, US #10); and "Wonderland by Night" (1961, US #18).
Bryant released several albums on the Carlton and Columbia labels. The 1959 Carlton LP Anita Bryant contained "Till There Was You" (from The Music Man). The 1963 Columbia Greatest Hits LP contained both Carlton and Columbia songs, including "Paper Roses" and "Step by Step, Little by Little". In 1964 she released The World of Lonely People, containing, in addition to the title song, "Welcome, Welcome Home" and a new rendition of "Little Things Mean a Lot", arranged by Frank Hunter.
In 1969 she became a spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission, and nationally televised commercials featured her singing "Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree" and stating the commercials' tagline: "Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine." All the commercials are now preserved and owned by the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives in Miami. In addition, during this time, she also appeared in advertisements for Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Holiday Inn and Tupperware.
She sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" during the graveside services for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973, and performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl III in 1969.
She was interviewed by Playboy magazine in May 1978.

Political campaigning

Save Our Children

Further information: Save Our Children
In 1977, Dade County, Florida (now Miami-Dade County), passed an ordinance sponsored by Bryant's former good friend Ruth Shack, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.[2] Bryant, as the leader of a coalition named Save Our Children, took part in a highly publicized campaign to repeal the ordinance. On June 7, 1977, Florida voters repealed the anti-discrimination ordinance by a margin of 69 to 31 percent. This same year, Anita Bryant and Save Our Children also supported a law passed by the Florida Legislature that prohibited gay adoption (the law didn't include fostering children).[3] In 1998 Dade County re-authorized a similar anti-discrimination ordinance protecting individuals from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by a seven to six vote, a move affirmed by county voters in 2002.[citation needed] The Florida statute prohibiting homosexuals from adopting children was upheld in 2004 by a federal appellate court against a constitutional challenge, but was overturned by a Miami-Dade Circuit Court in November 2008 more than 30 years later when Judge Cindy S. Lederman declared it unconstitutional and "not rational".[4][4] In September, 2010 the Third District Court in Miami ruled 3-0 that this ban was unconstitutional.[5]
Bob Green and Anita Bryant at a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa, where she was famously "pied" on camera by a gay rights activist. She responded "at least it was a fruit pie."
Anita Bryant's political success stirred backlash from some opponents. She was "pied" as a political act (in her case, on television), in Des Moines in 1977.[6] Bryant quipped "At least it's a fruit pie."[7] While covered in pie, she began to pray to God to forgive the activist "for his deviant lifestyle" before bursting into tears as the cameras kept rolling. Bryant's husband, after promising not to retaliate, later took another pie and threw it at the LGBT rights protesters that had pied his wife.[8] By this time, gay activists had ensured the boycott on Florida orange juice had become more prominent and it was supported by many celebrities including Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Paul Williams, John Waters, Carroll O'Connor, Mary Tyler Moore and Jane Fonda. The story was told in the book, At Any Cost (1978). Bryant is still opposed by some in the gay community who regard her stances and actions as bigotry and homophobia.[9]
Bryant’s 1977 political efforts are chronicled in Elizabeth Whitney's one-woman show “A Day Without Sunshine."[10]

Career decline and bankruptcies

The Florida Citrus Commission did not renew her endorsement contract upon its lapse in 1979 because of the controversy and the negative publicity generated by her political campaigns and the resulting boycott of Florida orange juice.[11] Ultimately, backlash against the Bryant's political efforts in the late 1970s "ended a high-flying career."[12] Bryant later opened "Anita Bryant's Music Mansion" in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (the "Hillbilly Las Vegas" better known as the Home of Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park[13]). The establishment combined Bryant's performances of her successful songs from early in her career with a "lengthy segment in which she preached her Christian beliefs."[14] Attendance frequently proved so low that the facility's manager planted employees in the auditorium to fill out the sparse audience.[15] Dozens of the Music Mansions employees missed paychecks from Bryant, who offered hope that God would send new investors for the enterprise.[16] Many "had cars repossessed or were evicted from apartments" after Bryant failed to pay them for their work.[17] (During this time Bryant lived in a $350,000 house in a gated community.[18]) The Music Mansion filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Bryant, who also filed for bankruptcy in Arkansas in 1997, has become noted for leaving "bankruptcy and ill will in her wake" during her time in the "small entertainment capitols" of the Bible Belt.[19]
Bryant returned to Barnsdall, Oklahoma, in 2005 for the town's 100th anniversary celebration and to have a street renamed in her honor. She returned to her high school in Tulsa on April 21, 2007, to perform in the school's annual musical revue. She now lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, and says she does charity work for various youth organizations while heading Anita Bryant Ministries International.

Singles

Charted hits

Year Title Chart Positions
US Pop US R&B US AC UK
1959 "Till There Was You" 30 — — —
"Six Boys and Seven Girls" 62 — — —
"Do-Re-Mi" 94 — — —
1960 "Paper Roses" 5 16 — 24
"In My Little Corner of the World" 10 — — 48
"One of the Lucky Ones" 62 — — —
"Promise Me a Rose (A Slight Detail)" 78 — — —
1961 "Wonderland by Night" 18 — — —
"A Texan and a Girl from Mexico" 85 — — —
"I Can't Do It by Myself" 87 — — —
"Lonesome For You, Mama" 108 — — —
1962 "Step By Step, Little By Little" 106 — — —
1964 "The World of Lonely People" 59 — 17 —
"Welcome, Welcome Home" 130 — — —

References

  1. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  2. ^ http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Sadat-Visits-Israel/12361881614363-1/#title "Miami DEmonstrations, 1977 Year in Review."
  3. ^ http://floridaagenda.com/2010/09/23/court-stikes-down-ban-on-gay-adoption/
  4. ^ a b Almanzar, Yolanne (2008-11-25). "Florida Gay Adoption Ban Is Ruled Unconstitutional". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/us/26florida.html?_r=1&ref=us&pagewanted=print. 
  5. ^ http://floridaagenda.com/2010/09/23/court-stikes-down-ban-on-gay-adoption/
  6. ^ 'For the Bible Tells Me So': Setting us straight
  7. ^ CNN Transcripts
  8. ^ http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Movies/article/293551
  9. ^ Louis-Georges Tin, Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience (2003), ISBN 978-1551522296
  10. ^ http://offoffbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/One_Woman_Standing_for_One_Woman_Shows_to_Start_512_20080429
  11. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  12. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  13. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  14. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  15. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  16. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  17. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  18. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  19. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Anita Bryant
Birth name Anita Jane Bryant
Born March 25, 1940 (1940-03-25) (age 70)
Origin Barnsdall, Oklahoma
Genres Pop music
Years active 1956–1977
Labels Carlton, Columbia, Word
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer, former beauty queen and gay rights opponent. She scored four Top 40 hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Paper Roses", which reached #5. She later became widely known for her strong views against homosexuality and for her prominent campaigning in 1977 to repeal a local ordinance in Dade County, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, an involvement that significantly damaged her popularity and performance career.[1]

Contents

[show]

Early life and career

 This section does not cite any references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2008)
Bryant was born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma. Soon after her sister Sandra was born, her mother and father divorced. Her father went into the U.S. Army and her mother went to work, taking her children to live with their grandparents temporarily. When Bryant was two years old, her grandfather taught her to sing "Jesus Loves Me". She was singing at the age of six onstage on local fairgrounds in Oklahoma. She sang occasionally on radio and television, and was invited to audition when Arthur Godfrey's talent show came to town. Her father at first refused to allow her to go on Godfrey's show, relenting only when he was told that it would be a sin for his daughter not to share her talent.[citation needed]
Bryant became Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and was a second runner-up in the 1959 Miss America beauty pageant at age 19, right after graduating from Tulsa's Will Rogers High School.
In 1960, she married Bob Green, a Miami disc jockey, with whom she eventually raised four children: Robert Jr. (Bobby), Gloria, Billy, and Barbara. She appeared early in her career on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood and on the same network's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.
"Paper Roses"
"Little Things Mean a Lot"
Problems listening to these files? See media help.
Bryant placed a total of eleven songs on the U.S. Hot 100, although most were at the bottom reaches of the chart. She had a moderate pop hit with "Till There Was You" (1959, US #30). She also saw three hits in "Paper Roses" (1960, US #5, and covered by Marie Osmond 13 years later); "In My Little Corner of the World" (1960, US #10); and "Wonderland by Night" (1961, US #18).
Bryant released several albums on the Carlton and Columbia labels. The 1959 Carlton LP Anita Bryant contained "Till There Was You" (from The Music Man). The 1963 Columbia Greatest Hits LP contained both Carlton and Columbia songs, including "Paper Roses" and "Step by Step, Little by Little". In 1964 she released The World of Lonely People, containing, in addition to the title song, "Welcome, Welcome Home" and a new rendition of "Little Things Mean a Lot", arranged by Frank Hunter.
In 1969 she became a spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission, and nationally televised commercials featured her singing "Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree" and stating the commercials' tagline: "Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine." All the commercials are now preserved and owned by the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives in Miami. In addition, during this time, she also appeared in advertisements for Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Holiday Inn and Tupperware.
She sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" during the graveside services for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973, and performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl III in 1969.
She was interviewed by Playboy magazine in May 1978.

Political campaigning

Save Our Children

Further information: Save Our Children
In 1977, Dade County, Florida (now Miami-Dade County), passed an ordinance sponsored by Bryant's former good friend Ruth Shack, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.[2] Bryant, as the leader of a coalition named Save Our Children, took part in a highly publicized campaign to repeal the ordinance. On June 7, 1977, Florida voters repealed the anti-discrimination ordinance by a margin of 69 to 31 percent. This same year, Anita Bryant and Save Our Children also supported a law passed by the Florida Legislature that prohibited gay adoption (the law didn't include fostering children).[3] In 1998 Dade County re-authorized a similar anti-discrimination ordinance protecting individuals from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by a seven to six vote, a move affirmed by county voters in 2002.[citation needed] The Florida statute prohibiting homosexuals from adopting children was upheld in 2004 by a federal appellate court against a constitutional challenge, but was overturned by a Miami-Dade Circuit Court in November 2008 more than 30 years later when Judge Cindy S. Lederman declared it unconstitutional and "not rational".[4][4] In September, 2010 the Third District Court in Miami ruled 3-0 that this ban was unconstitutional.[5]
Bob Green and Anita Bryant at a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa, where she was famously "pied" on camera by a gay rights activist. She responded "at least it was a fruit pie."
Anita Bryant's political success stirred backlash from some opponents. She was "pied" as a political act (in her case, on television), in Des Moines in 1977.[6] Bryant quipped "At least it's a fruit pie."[7] While covered in pie, she began to pray to God to forgive the activist "for his deviant lifestyle" before bursting into tears as the cameras kept rolling. Bryant's husband, after promising not to retaliate, later took another pie and threw it at the LGBT rights protesters that had pied his wife.[8] By this time, gay activists had ensured the boycott on Florida orange juice had become more prominent and it was supported by many celebrities including Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Paul Williams, John Waters, Carroll O'Connor, Mary Tyler Moore and Jane Fonda. The story was told in the book, At Any Cost (1978). Bryant is still opposed by some in the gay community who regard her stances and actions as bigotry and homophobia.[9]
Bryant’s 1977 political efforts are chronicled in Elizabeth Whitney's one-woman show “A Day Without Sunshine."[10]

Career decline and bankruptcies

The Florida Citrus Commission did not renew her endorsement contract upon its lapse in 1979 because of the controversy and the negative publicity generated by her political campaigns and the resulting boycott of Florida orange juice.[11] Ultimately, backlash against the Bryant's political efforts in the late 1970s "ended a high-flying career."[12] Bryant later opened "Anita Bryant's Music Mansion" in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (the "Hillbilly Las Vegas" better known as the Home of Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park[13]). The establishment combined Bryant's performances of her successful songs from early in her career with a "lengthy segment in which she preached her Christian beliefs."[14] Attendance frequently proved so low that the facility's manager planted employees in the auditorium to fill out the sparse audience.[15] Dozens of the Music Mansions employees missed paychecks from Bryant, who offered hope that God would send new investors for the enterprise.[16] Many "had cars repossessed or were evicted from apartments" after Bryant failed to pay them for their work.[17] (During this time Bryant lived in a $350,000 house in a gated community.[18]) The Music Mansion filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Bryant, who also filed for bankruptcy in Arkansas in 1997, has become noted for leaving "bankruptcy and ill will in her wake" during her time in the "small entertainment capitols" of the Bible Belt.[19]
Bryant returned to Barnsdall, Oklahoma, in 2005 for the town's 100th anniversary celebration and to have a street renamed in her honor. She returned to her high school in Tulsa on April 21, 2007, to perform in the school's annual musical revue. She now lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, and says she does charity work for various youth organizations while heading Anita Bryant Ministries International.

Singles

Charted hits

Year Title Chart Positions
US Pop US R&B US AC UK
1959 "Till There Was You" 30 — — —
"Six Boys and Seven Girls" 62 — — —
"Do-Re-Mi" 94 — — —
1960 "Paper Roses" 5 16 — 24
"In My Little Corner of the World" 10 — — 48
"One of the Lucky Ones" 62 — — —
"Promise Me a Rose (A Slight Detail)" 78 — — —
1961 "Wonderland by Night" 18 — — —
"A Texan and a Girl from Mexico" 85 — — —
"I Can't Do It by Myself" 87 — — —
"Lonesome For You, Mama" 108 — — —
1962 "Step By Step, Little By Little" 106 — — —
1964 "The World of Lonely People" 59 — 17 —
"Welcome, Welcome Home" 130 — — —

References

  1. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  2. ^ http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Sadat-Visits-Israel/12361881614363-1/#title "Miami DEmonstrations, 1977 Year in Review."
  3. ^ http://floridaagenda.com/2010/09/23/court-stikes-down-ban-on-gay-adoption/
  4. ^ a b Almanzar, Yolanne (2008-11-25). "Florida Gay Adoption Ban Is Ruled Unconstitutional". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/us/26florida.html?_r=1&ref=us&pagewanted=print. 
  5. ^ http://floridaagenda.com/2010/09/23/court-stikes-down-ban-on-gay-adoption/
  6. ^ 'For the Bible Tells Me So': Setting us straight
  7. ^ CNN Transcripts
  8. ^ http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Movies/article/293551
  9. ^ Louis-Georges Tin, Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience (2003), ISBN 978-1551522296
  10. ^ http://offoffbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/One_Woman_Standing_for_One_Woman_Shows_to_Start_512_20080429
  11. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  12. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  13. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  14. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  15. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  16. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  17. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  18. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml
  19. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/State/Bankruptcy__ill_will_.shtml

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant"
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