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...ordinance outlawing discrimination against homosexuals in housing, employment and public accommodations. This week the county will hold a referendum to decide whether or not to rescind the law. Already the issue has grown into a symbol of the countrywide battle for homosexual rights-pitting the zeal of Singer Anita Bryant, the pro-repeal crusader, against the anti-repeal efforts of newly energized gay activists...
Born Again. The ordinance was enacted last January despite the opposition of Bryant. Now 37, she was a runner-up for Miss America in 1959 and has made several million-record sellers. She earns around $500,000 a year, including $100,000 for extolling Florida citrus fruits on TV. A devout Baptist, Bryant claims she was "born again" at the age of eight. As an entertainer, says Bryant, she sees and tolerates homosexuals. But she opposes this ordinance because it prevents private and parochial schools from discriminating against homosexuals in hiring teachers. Her four children attend a Baptist school. Says...
Replying to Bryant's charge that homosexual teachers could harm their pupils, Miami's gay activists say there have been no such incidents in any of the 38 other cities and counties with similar laws. They claim, with the backing of some psychiatric evidence, that a person's sexual orientation is fixed between the ages of three and five...
...Bryant's legions have been equally active. The Save Our Children coalition attracted some 10,000 people to the Miami Beach Convention Hall last month for a "God and Decency Rally." More than $140,000 has been raised in contributions, some from as far away as Southern California and Texas. Florida Governor Reubin Askew is supporting the movement. Orthodox Jews and the Catholic hierarchy, concerned about their private schools, have come out firmly against the ordinance. The Rev. F. William Chapman, pastor of Bryant's church, insists he would burn down his parochial school "rather than permit...
...normal graduation exercises since the end of World War II. The morning ceremonies that spotlighted the new graduates concluded with the awarding of honorary degrees. T.S. Eliot was among the recipients. Another was a white-haired man in a plain gray suit who rose in response to President James Bryant Conant's swift and eloquent citation: "An American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of the nation...