I've made it to the initial round for favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. I have to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins, so your vote is appreciated! First voting round:
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
The National Organization for Marriage rounded up some desperate actors for its new anti-gay ad. Watch these awful auditions. I guess generating authenticity for this pack of lies is hard work.
Responses from GLAAD and NGLTF are below the fold.
Today, the anti-gay activist group the National Organization for Marriage began running a television advertisement with misleading, defamatory claims about the effects of marriage for same-sex couples. Please see the ad to the right.
"The distorted, misleading claims of the National Organization for Marriage do one thing and one thing only - perpetuate a climate of hostility and fear that will put committed couples in harm's way," said GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano. "We stand in support of One Iowa and our partners on the ground and urge our community to speak out against these divisive attacks."
GLAAD is working with and calling on national and local media in states where the ad is schedule to run including New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire to expose the misinformation in these ads in order to bring attention to the real intent of the National Organization for Marriage - to exclude same-sex couples and their families from the responsibilities and protections of marriage.
One Iowa needs your support! Please visit their site and review their petition:
Out of State organizations attacking the freedom to marry in Iowa! The same right-wing organizations who spent millions to pass Prop. 8 in California are now spending their money in Iowa! Sign this petition and send a strong message that Iowans oppose out of state groups from using their money and influence to take away the rights of Iowans!
Statement by Rea Carey, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:
"Everything about this television ad is phony - from the actors portraying 'real people' to the malicious, deceitful lies coming out of their mouths to the ridiculous claim they represent a 'rainbow coalition.' This commercial clearly is a sign of desperation. The right wing is scrambling to gain its footing in the face of a shifting landscape and a flurry of victories for equality; new landscape, but same old scare tactics. We believe that fair-minded people are fed up with this divisiveness and will not fall prey to these fear-mongering tactics."
