Southern Baptist Leader: You’ll Regret Ridiculing Anita Bryant Because God Is Going To “Have The Last Say”
A Baptist site called The Biblical Reporter has published a lengthy lionizing of the life of recently dead Anita Bryant with a headline which crows that she “foretold the battle against the LGBTQ agenda.” The piece closes with this:
Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, recalled on The Briefing podcast Jan. 13 that he heard Bryant sing in 1977 at a rally at the Miami Beach Convention Center that included Jerry Falwell, who would go on to found the Moral Majority. The gay rights movement, Mohler said, made Bryant the poster child of opposition to their cause and “an engine for their own political purposes.”
“One of the techniques used to marginalize Anita Bryant was to treat her as a freak show and that’s the threat that same
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