I didn’t have much time play around with this, so my first effort sucks.  But this weekend …. And, of course, the audio is not safe for work. 

She says she remained silent? Going on Dobson’s show? Watch it:

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UPDATED below with Bonus GOP Gay-Hatin’ Video.

I thought of this when the whole Carrie Prejean thing went down, but did not post it.  CB’s comment jogged my memory.  Behold – a Bigoted Beauty Queen (let’s call then “BBQs”) from the distant past:

Alternet in 2004:

Remember Anita Bryant, the Miss America runner-up turned orange juice tout turned anti-gay campaigner? Though she long ago faded from public view, her legacy survives in Florida.

Bryant, who condemned homosexuality as immoral and “against God’s wishes,” is best known for her 1977 campaign to repeal a Miami ordinance banning anti-gay discrimination. Her organization, Save Our Children, claimed that gays — or “known practicing homosexuals,” in her lingo — were converting children to homosexuality. It was thus no surprise that after Bryant succeeded in her self-described crusade against the bias ordinance, she turned her sights on Florida’s adoption laws.

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