“If you want to heckle go to a nightclub.” --Maj. Charles E. Winchester, III
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…??
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 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.
Wiki is merely accurately quoting Anita Bryant. She did say that.
But, presumably, you only bite your own nails. 
Here’s a description of the Ellis Island Award and the circumstances behind it, from the Huffington Post.
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.
Expecting bigots to make sense is a fool’s game.
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.”