Anita Bryant gets pie in face (1977)

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Newt's glitter shower made me remember watching this one.
I'm surprised FOX hasn't tried to resurrect her career yet. She seems like just the type of has-been celebrity Hannity would put on a panel.


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Anita Bryant was a singer. A woman with a slightly religious background who ended up being the spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission. She was also a mother and starred in various ad campaigns for other labels, such as Coca Cola, Tupperware, and Kraft Foods.

In 1977, Dade County Florida tried to pass an ordinance that would forbid discrimination, due to sexual orientation. Anita was outraged at this. She said that homosexuals could not reproduce on their own and therefore were trying to push their “lifestyle” as an acceptable alternative to recruit children for their ranks. So she started a campaign called “Save Our Children” to rally support to stop the ordinance from passing. She teamed up with the likes of Jerry Falwell to organize a rebellion against gay rights, which were sweeping across the nation at the time.

“As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children, therefore, they must recruit our children’

“If gays are granted rights, next we’ll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with Saint Bernards and to nail biters.”

In June of 1977, Anita Bryant’s campaign was successful and the ordinance was repealed by a margin of 69 to 31 percent.

http://gayhistory4u.blogspot.com/2009/08/religious-right-has-been-on-attack.html

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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.<8> Bryant quipped "At least it's a fruit pie."<9> 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.<10> 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.<11>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant

Complete and utter WHACKO.