Anita Bryant (1940-2024)

[ideologyhunter]

Her family announced her death yesterday, although she actually died three and a half weeks ago. This makes me wonder if they feared that there would be demonstrators at her funeral. I would hope that would be an unfounded fear, but who knows. Her peak of fame/infamy was the late 70s.
Sample quote: "Homosexuals cannot reproduce, so they must recruit."

 

[crazyfingers]

She was among the first religious right wing scumbags I recall hearing about.

 

[Elixir]

Was she the inspiration for Betty Bowers? (America’s best Christian)

 

[Jarhyn]

Was she the inspiration for Betty Bowers? (America’s best Christian)

Yes, AFAIK.

But today Betty has some stiff secular competition for "most virtuous" with the whole Dawkins generation of bad faith normalists.