A co-founder of the Religious Right - a conservative, Christian, political movement in the United States that began in the
late 1970s and continues to the present day.
Politically to the Right of more traditional evangelicals like the Rev.
Billy Graham
Led a political crusade against homosexuality in the late 1970s that killed her career, while simultaneously opening the
door for the Moral Majority - Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell - into mainstream
politics.
Bryant is largely responsible for the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bryant had been a model, a singer and an Florida orange juice spokesperson.
A largely unsung martyr for the Christian Right in the U.
S. and arguably the most effective political spokeswoman in the past 30 years.
Anita Bryant turned fear of homosexual child molesters into an artform.
Without Anita Bryant'
s "Save Our Children" campaign during Jimmy Carter'
s first term, Carter
may have had a chance at a second term.
