44 years ago today. Never forget
, via her ministry’s website, that she had no idea this “local” matter would become “a full-blown national issue.” But her retelling of events conveniently leaves out all of her similar efforts against pro-gay legislation in other states. Make no mistake: She was one of the nation’s, up there with the likes of the Rev. Jerry Falwell and other leading figures in the reactionary, “Moral Majority” movement of the later 20th Century.
Her so-called “crusade” eventually led her to Des Moines in 1977, where, during an Oct. 14 press conference, some small kind of uppance finally came. Thom Higgins, a gay activist from St. Paul, Minn., whoin 1994, hit Bryant in the face with a pie, finally shutting her up, albeit momentarily, with an act as palpably angry as it was delightfully campy.
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