Bryant, a Southern Baptist living in Florida, objected to a proposed Miami ordinance barring sexual preference–based discrimination in employment, warning of Sodom and Gomorrah. Bryant’s campaign backfired. By the time the women’s convention opened in Houston, Bryant’s crusade against what she described as “a well-organized, highly financed, and politically militant group of homosexual activists” had convinced many liberal feminists, previously reluctant, to throw their support behind homosexual rights.45