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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.
--"Joe"
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* Papa Ratzi: "Gays and lesbians marrying is an obstacle to world peace." We are a powerful lot, huh? Yet another bleat of the week from the Vatican (h/t Towleroad):
Presenting the nuclear family as the "first and indispensable teacher of peace" and the "primary agency of peace," the 15-page document links sexual and medical ethics to international relations.
"Everything that serves to weaken the family based on the marriage of a man and woman, everything that directly or indirectly stands in the way of its openness to the responsible acceptance of new life ... constitutes an objective obstacle on the road to peace," Benedict writes. * Chris Matthews calls for marriage equality. The host of MSNBC's Hardball normally gets my ire up on quite a few topics, but this is a pleasant surprise. PageOneQ has video.
* The author of one of my favorite books, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, gay historian Allan Berube, has died. The tome was a fantastic work. A statement by his close friend Wayne Hoffman is below the fold. |
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Berube was, for decades, an independent historian and community activist. He first came to progressive political activism in opposition to the Vietnam war, working with the American Friends Service Committee in Boston in the late 1960s, after dropping out of the University of Chicago. After coming out in 1969, he joined a "gay liberation collective household," and later moved to San Francisco to join a gay commune for craftspeople. He remained in San Francisco for many years, and was one of the founders of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project in 1978. His slide shows about women who dressed and passed as men -- and married other women -- were welcomed by enthusiastic audiences around the country.
Berube is best remembered for his groundbreaking work of gay history, published in 1990: Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II. The Lambda Literary Award-winning book, which was later adapted by Arthur Dong into a Peabody Award-winning documentary, was often cited in Senate hearings on the military's anti-gay policies in 1993.
For the past several years, Berube lived in Liberty, N.Y., in the Catskills. There, he owned a bed & breakfast, and operated Intelligent Design, a store selling mid-century modern collectibles. Berube's partner, John Nelson, said, "Allan just loved it when people walked into the Liberty store, looked around, and were happy." In addition to Nelson, Berube is also survived by his mother and three sisters. * Click over to an interesting article on being black and gay, from the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, A minority within a minority: African-American gays report existence is comfortable, somewhat invisible. Reporter Mark Melady drops the ball semantically by using the terms "gay marriage" and "sexual preference" in the piece, and one interviewee, Rodney Glasgow, director of diversity at Worcester Academy (and the first fully out faculty member at the school) has this to say, which should stimulate discussion. African Americans' unease with homosexuality has its roots in the emasculation of black men during slavery, Mr. Glasgow said. "A gay black male evokes that dynamic in the black culture," he said. "And a lot of the avoidance of the issue of black homosexuality has to do with the decline of the black family. A black gay male is seen as adding to that decline."
The gay community is as racist as the population at large, Mr. Glasgow said, maybe even more so because male homosexual racial attitudes are often interwoven with sexual stereotypes and fetishism. "My friends are shocked when I say this, but I feel most out of place in gay places," Mr. Glasgow said, referring primarily to gay clubs.
Too many white gay men view black gay men through the prism of sexual desire based on racist typecasting, Mr. Glasgow said. "They want the hypersexual black male or the finger-snapping black diva," he said. Racism among gays is part of the reason Mr. Glasgow does not believe gay rights should be linked to the civil rights movement.
"Gays want to jump on the civil rights wagon, but they are not doing any anti-racism work," he said. "I'm also uncomfortable with a connection to the civil rights movement because that's still in progress." * Also, Ben Hinzel of OutFront Blog points to a piece by Laura Nguyen on being gay and Asian and one by Ivette Lopez, on being gay and Hispanic. |
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