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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.
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(Blend regular Charles Merrill has a poll for you below the fold... - promoted by Pam Spaulding)
by Charles Merrill www.merrillcharles.com The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the religious motivation for the law is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause in the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Congress over-reached its authority under the law and discriminates and violates the Equal Protection Clause. The law violates the fundamental right to marriage (including same-sex marriage) under the due process clause and it should be repealed immediately to help reconstruct the economy.. Supporters of DOMA argue that the act is a legitimate exercise of Congressional power under the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the act does not violate either the Equal Protection Clause or the due process clause of the United States Constitution. On June 21st, 2004 an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office called “The Potential Budgetary Impact of Recognizing Same-Sex Marriages“, was sent to Honorable Steve Chabot, Chairman, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives at his request. The analysis stated that recognizing same-sex marriages by the Federal government would affect federal revenues through both the individual income tax and the estate tax. Revenues would be higher: by $400 million a year from 2005 through 2020 and by $500 million to $700 million annually from 2011 through 2014. A billion dollars earned from Federal tax revenue is what would be added to the U.S. Treasury every three years if same sex-couples were allowed to file Federal Income tax forms. The stock market keeps on crashing as I predicted with my words of warning written in the Wall Street Journal, Oct. 31, 2007. No one listened. Not lawmakers, not President Bush, not Vice President Cheney. Exactly a year later after my warning, Christian evangelicals gathered around the Merrill/Lynch bronze bull sculpture, the standing one with shiny low hangers to pray for a bull market.. The organizer of the prayer group stated to Pat Robertson’s 700 Club, “This is so severe in the economic area because we are facing judgment from the actions, not only for our stance towards Israel, but our blatant sin against Him in passing laws such as the one allowing homosexual marriages.” More below the fold. |
| CharlesMerrill :: Same-Sex Marriage Can Help In Economic Recovery |
President Obama promised in his campaign to sign a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act once Congress hands him the repeal law.. I of course am speaking of marriage as a civil marriage. Ms. Nair, a Chicago based journalist recently blogged, "Couples can get married in the Church of the righteous cheese cracker, but the marriage will not be official until the paperwork down at the courthouse goes through in regards to getting the privileges accorded to married couples. In fact, the state also has to recognize the validity of a person's authority to perform a wedding, before the wedding is legal. Authority over weddings is purely a government controlled process, the church stuff is only window dressing." My late wife Evangeline and I were married by my brother in law, J. Seward Johnson on his luxury yacht “Ocean Pearl” sailing in the waters off Hobe Sound, Florida.. Although Seward was a captain of a ship and had the authority to conduct a marriage, a Florida Justice of the Peace was also in attendance to make sure our marriage was recorded in the county records.. Evangeline and Seward’s father founded Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Co. and our tax bills as a couple filing jointly were huge adding a lot to the government‘s revenue.. As a one man one woman marriage we were also allowed to automatically receive the 1,138 benefits allowed by the Federal government and Internal Revenue Tax Code. Evangeline and I were a couple for 23 years. Evangeline passed away and I fell in love with a man and have been with Kevin 18 years. In 2004 I organized a tax protest against President Bush’s initiative to amend the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as only a union between one man and one woman. Kevin and I are legally married in the State of California.. We are treated as second class citizens by the government seen as the "ick" factor. The Internal Revenue Service claims I owe millions of dollars in past taxes since 2004 and my case goes to court in May at U.S. Tax Court, San Diego, California. . Celebrities such as performing artist Melissa Etheridge have joined the tax protest and recently said on “Oprah” that she would see if she will pay state and federal taxes come April 15th, 2009.. If nothing is done soon to start the repeal of DOMA, the consequence of having thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community members angry to the point of not filing taxes April 15, 2009 is a real possibility. The tax discrimination protest could further add to crashing the economy. |
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