# Woman in Picture: Ellis Island Award recipients **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 22, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-in-picture-ellis-island-award-recipients/777854 "2017-01-22T19:00:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-in-picture-ellis-island-award-recipients/777854/21 "2017-01-23T20:29:12Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > The 60 something year old guy who lives with his Mom in a trailer park is having trouble grasping this concept? Who woulda think it. “If you want to heckle go to a nightclub.” --Maj. Charles E. Winchester, III ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-in-picture-ellis-island-award-recipients/777854/22 "2017-01-23T20:30:17Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Quoting her Wiki page: > > “If gays are granted rights, next we’ll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and\*\* to nail biters.”\*\* Gotta ask-WTF? It’s Wiki, did someone slip that by? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-in-picture-ellis-island-award-recipients/777854/23 "2017-01-23T22:16:35Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Gotta ask-WTF? > It’s Wiki, did someone slip that by? I know – now I am afraid to say I am a nail biter, for fear it’s a term for some sexual proclivity…?? ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-in-picture-ellis-island-award-recipients/777854/24 "2017-01-24T00:22:49Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Gotta ask-WTF? > It’s Wiki, did someone slip that by? The Anita Bryant quote is genuine. Apparently the idea was that if gay people could be considered a minority group deserving of rights and protection, so could any other random group. The _[Miami News](https://books.google.ca/books?id=QWF5CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA329&dq=anita%20bryant%20gay%20%22nail%20biters%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinl9bmr-jLAhUX0mMKHYbWAwUQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=anita%20bryant%20gay%20%22nail%20biters%22&f=false)_ said, “If homosexuals are accepted as a legitimate minority, then why not people with long hair?..Why not nail biters?” Ms. Bryant was just riffing off of that comment. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-in-picture-ellis-island-award-recipients/777854/25 "2017-01-24T00:48:57Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Gotta ask-WTF? > It’s Wiki, did someone slip that by? Wiki is merely accurately quoting Anita Bryant. She did say that. > [@gigi](#): > > I know – now I am afraid to say I am a nail biter, for fear it’s a term for some sexual proclivity…?? But, presumably, you only bite your own nails. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-in-picture-ellis-island-award-recipients/777854/26 "2017-01-24T02:05:01Z")
Here’s a description of the Ellis Island Award and the circumstances behind it, from the Huffington Post. > **[No, Donald Trump Did Not Win A Medal From The NAACP](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-naacp_n_580ac881e4b000d0b156e6e2)** > > The real story is much, much weirder. To summarize, for the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty, a committee planned for twelve naturalized citizens of note ( Irving Berlin; Dr. Kenneth B. Clark,; Franklin R. Chang-Diaz,; Hannah Holborn Gray; Bob Hope; Henry A. Kissinger; I. M. Pei; Itzhak Perlman; James B. Reston; Dr. Albert B. Sabin; Dr. An Wang, and Elie Wiesel. William Fugazy, who was a New York businessman and fixer, got upset because because there were no Italians, Irish, or Poles among the groups, founded his own group, the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, which set up its own awards. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-in-picture-ellis-island-award-recipients/777854/27 "2017-01-24T02:12:28Z")
Expecting bigots to make sense is a fool’s game. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-in-picture-ellis-island-award-recipients/777854/28 "2017-01-24T05:53:46Z")
I had not come by any religious convictions at the time (about mid-1967, I think) I heard about the controversy that Anita Bryant was involved in. I graduated from high school that June, and I had no religious notions at all. That did not come for another three years. During that time the only controversy I was exposed to on a regular basis was Vietnam; my stepfather’s niece and her husband were outspoken, self-proclaimed members of the New Left and they usually irritated me with their assertions on any controversial subject, since I had not adopted views on any newsworthy topic at all. When I did acquire religious convictions, the issue of homosexuality did not actually become one of the topics I would take up. This was true even in spite of a prohibition as given in the sixth chapter of 1 Corinthians–because, as noted in Romans 12:19, it was not **my** place to enforce the prohibition. So I let it go at that and that has been my position all these years. I think Ms. Bryant was being sarcastic with her extrapolation about nail-biters and St. Bernards; sort of a where-does-it-all-end or _reductio ad absurdum_ comment. But my comment just above says it all. Just like Edith Bunker: “How can he? You ain’t God.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-in-picture-ellis-island-award-recipients/777854.md?page=1)