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| The law professor ] wrote in ''Sex and Reason'' (1992) that while ''The Anita Bryant Story'' is not scholarly, it reflects widespread beliefs about homosexuality. Posner criticized Bryant's views, writing while the causes of a same-sex preference are not well understood, the main factors involved appear to be genetic, hormonal, developmental, or some combination thereof, not recruitment, and that Bryant's assertion that gay people can change their sexual orientation is false in most cases.{{sfn|Posner|1992|page=224}} | The law professor ] wrote in '']'' (1992) that while ''The Anita Bryant Story'' is not scholarly, it reflects widespread beliefs about homosexuality. Posner criticized Bryant's views, writing while the causes of a same-sex preference are not well understood, the main factors involved appear to be genetic, hormonal, developmental, or some combination thereof, not recruitment, and that Bryant's assertion that gay people can change their sexual orientation is false in most cases.{{sfn|Posner|1992|page=224}} | ||
| Jordan wrote of ''The Anita Bryant Story'' that, "Bryant's thin narrative is interlarded—interrupted—with exhortations, observations, and too many quotations. The book keeps breaking its own plot line, jumping forward to its conclusions, because the reader is supposed already to know how the story ends." Jordan viewed the book as an effort by Bryant to show her "benign intentions and reasonableness". He suggested that Bryant's use of "ritual repetition" made her language resemble "the language of worship, of creed, litany, psalmody."{{sfn|Jordan|2011|page=137–138}} | Jordan wrote of ''The Anita Bryant Story'' that, "Bryant's thin narrative is interlarded—interrupted—with exhortations, observations, and too many quotations. The book keeps breaking its own plot line, jumping forward to its conclusions, because the reader is supposed already to know how the story ends." Jordan viewed the book as an effort by Bryant to show her "benign intentions and reasonableness". He suggested that Bryant's use of "ritual repetition" made her language resemble "the language of worship, of creed, litany, psalmody."{{sfn|Jordan|2011|page=137–138}} | ||
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| Author | Anita Bryant |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Autobiography |
| Published | 1977 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 156 |
| ISBN | 978-0800708979 |
The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Nation's Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality is a 1977 book by Anita Bryant, in which the author provides an account of her evangelical Christian campaign against a gay rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida. The claims Bryant makes about homosexuality in the book have been described as false and unscholarly in nature.
Background
According to the philosopher Mark D. Jordan, The Anita Bryant Story was originally to have been titled Save Our Children: One Woman's Fight against the Sin of Homosexuality, but after the international relief organization Save the Children secured a preliminary injunction requiring the Bryant's campaign change its name from Save Our Children to avoid confusion, the title of Bryant's book had to be changed as well.
Reception
Mainstream media
The journalist M. Stanton Evans gave The Anita Bryant Story a positive review in National Review, writing that Bryant's "frequent arguments from Scripture confirm the view that she is deeply religious but refute the libel that she is any sort of bigot." Evans welcomed Bryant's lack of regret for the consequences to her of her opposition to gay rights.
Academic journals
Casper G. Schmidt, writing in the Journal of Psychohistory in 1984, suggested that Bryant outlines the major issues of concern to opponents of gay rights, and that she was correct in believing that repeal of the gay rights ordinance in Dade County would provoke a larger backlash against the gay rights movement.
Evaluations in books
The law professor Richard Posner wrote in Sex and Reason (1992) that while The Anita Bryant Story is not scholarly, it reflects widespread beliefs about homosexuality. Posner criticized Bryant's views, writing while the causes of a same-sex preference are not well understood, the main factors involved appear to be genetic, hormonal, developmental, or some combination thereof, not recruitment, and that Bryant's assertion that gay people can change their sexual orientation is false in most cases.
Jordan wrote of The Anita Bryant Story that, "Bryant's thin narrative is interlarded—interrupted—with exhortations, observations, and too many quotations. The book keeps breaking its own plot line, jumping forward to its conclusions, because the reader is supposed already to know how the story ends." Jordan viewed the book as an effort by Bryant to show her "benign intentions and reasonableness". He suggested that Bryant's use of "ritual repetition" made her language resemble "the language of worship, of creed, litany, psalmody."
See also
- Biology and sexual orientation
- Conversion therapy
- Environment and sexual orientation
- Sexual orientation change efforts
References
Footnotes
- Jordan 2011, p. 237.
- Evans 1978, p. 169.
- Schmidt 1997, pp. 55–56. sfn error: no target: CITEREFSchmidt1997 (help)
- Posner 1992, p. 224.
- Jordan 2011, p. 137–138.
Bibliography
- Books
- Jordan, Mark D. (2011). Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226410449.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Posner, Richard (1992). Sex and Reason. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-80279-9.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Schmidt, Casper G.; Lauritsen, John, Editor; Young, Ian, Editor (1997). The AIDS Cult: Essays on the Gay Health Crisis. Provincetown: Pagan Press. ISBN 0-943742-10-2.
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- Journals
- Evans, M. Stanton (1978). "Dark Horses". National Review. 30 (5).
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