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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyMay 22nd, 2016
The Associated Press described her as a “strong-principled advocate of God, family and flag.” Nevertheless, she announced that she was divorcing her husband and manager, Bob Green because he “violated my most precious asset: my very conscience.”
Bryant’s statement, which the AP reported she released “from her 25-room Miami Beach home,” charged that Green cooperated “with certain hired staff members who conspired to control me and to use my name and reputation to build their personal careers instead of my ministry.” Her statement brought to a close their twenty year marriage. She also announced that she was resigning from Anita Bryant Ministries.
Green answered Bryant with an open letter, which was also released to the press:
Dear Anita:
I love you with all my heart and I am awaiting your return as my wife and the mother of our children. God’s love and forgiveness is open to both of us if we will but seek it.
Let us both put aside all other earthly considerations and reunite our lives in Christian love.
Your husband,
Bob
Bryant wasn’t interested in Green’s overture, such as it was, and she went ahead with the divorce, even though it was “against everything I believe in.” Green, citing his religious beliefs, refused to recognize the divorce, saying they were still married “in God’s eyes.” He also blamed gay people: “Blame gay people? I do. Their stated goal was to put [Bryant] out of business and destroy her career. And that’s what they did. It’s unfair.” He died, an embittered old man, in 2012.
Bryant married again and relaunched her career in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. When that failed, she moved to Branson, Missouri. When that failed, she declared bankruptcy and moved to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to start over one more time. That also failed, leaving a pile of unpaid creditors and abused employees in the wake.
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Ben in oakland
May 22nd, 2016
So, Anita’s divorce was against everything she believed in…
Except, perhaps, what she believed to best for Anita.
Yet another so called Christian whose house o’ God is built from the logs in her eyes.
Ben in oakland
May 22nd, 2016
I posted this over at Religion News just to yank a few chains. I hope I did
On a related note, today is the 46th anniversary of the date that uber-Christian and arch-homohater Anita Bryant filed for divorce from her husband Bob. It was not because of adultery, either his or hers, which was the only reason that divorce was not sinful, according to Jesus. He was god, and he should know.
It was because, according to Bryant’s statement, which the AP reported she released “from her 25-room Miami Beach home” (Who said, ” It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich woman to enter the kingdom of heaven?” No one important.)……….
She charged that Good Ol’ Bob cooperated “with certain hired staff members who conspired to control me and to use my name and reputation to build their personal careers instead of my ministry.” Her statement brought to a close their twenty year marriage. She even went so far as to claim that her divorce was “against everything I believe in.”
Well, almost everything. But convenience is a harsh mistress.
For those who think that I am just an anti-Christian “homosexual”, perverted by my perverted perversions of perverted lust,. No, I’m not. I just wish you would all attend to your own sins, rather than trying to find excuses for them, and stop attacking my life, my love, my family, my friends, my faith, and my children…
…under the guise of loving me. Because I find your attacks completely indistinguishable from hate, and your moralizing completely indistinguishable from hypocrisy. As in “Scribes! Pharisees! Hypocrites!”
Who said that?
no one important,
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