Ha! I'd almost forgotten about her. In the very late '70s (probably 1979) when I was living in D.C. I was part of a mostly gay/lesbian march around the Washington Hilton when Anita was staying there. Very raucous and very fun. I once had a big orange button that said "California oranges don't care what else you eat." Bryant struck me as very lightweight politically. Schlafly OTOH was a political pro.
P.S. I'm still thinking about that possible "Christian nationalist" connection. I'm wary of retrofitting current ideological labels onto people who wouldn't have applied those labels to themselves. Those labels can come in handy for sure, but they can distort and at least oversimplify what those earlier people believed, while making the ideology look more monolithic (and ahistorical) than it is. Schlafly in particular comes from a long U.S. conservative tradition (think the anti-suffrage movement and the opposition to the New Deal) that predates the label "Christian nationalist" and IMO shouldn't be lumped in with it, even if they have some views in common. AFAIK, Bryant was a Christian, but her anti-gay views sure aren't unique to Christians, or shared by all Christians, so I don't think "Christian nationalist" applies to her either.
And then there was Anita Bryant. I am assuming she and Schlafly were Christian Nationalists now that I know more about it.
Ha! I'd almost forgotten about her. In the very late '70s (probably 1979) when I was living in D.C. I was part of a mostly gay/lesbian march around the Washington Hilton when Anita was staying there. Very raucous and very fun. I once had a big orange button that said "California oranges don't care what else you eat." Bryant struck me as very lightweight politically. Schlafly OTOH was a political pro.
P.S. I'm still thinking about that possible "Christian nationalist" connection. I'm wary of retrofitting current ideological labels onto people who wouldn't have applied those labels to themselves. Those labels can come in handy for sure, but they can distort and at least oversimplify what those earlier people believed, while making the ideology look more monolithic (and ahistorical) than it is. Schlafly in particular comes from a long U.S. conservative tradition (think the anti-suffrage movement and the opposition to the New Deal) that predates the label "Christian nationalist" and IMO shouldn't be lumped in with it, even if they have some views in common. AFAIK, Bryant was a Christian, but her anti-gay views sure aren't unique to Christians, or shared by all Christians, so I don't think "Christian nationalist" applies to her either.