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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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Kentucky: gay customers at McD's called 'faggots' by staff

by: Pam Spaulding

Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 08:00:00 AM EDT


The ACLU reports that it is representing two customers in filing an official complaint with the city of Louisville against a local McDonalds for anti-gay slurs hurled by workers at the patrons of the fast-food joint .
Ryan Marlatt, Teddy Eggers, and three other friends had stopped for lunch at a McDonald's restaurant on East Market Street on July 26, 2008 while visiting Louisville for the weekend. While they waited for their food to be prepared, an employee behind the counter referred to them as "faggots" to another employee. Marlatt and Eggers then approached the cashier, said they didn't come to the restaurant to be insulted, and asked to speak with a manager. As they waited for the supervisor on duty to appear, the employee who had called them "faggots" started arguing with them, repeatedly calling them "faggots" in front of other customers and calling one of them a "cocksucker" and "bitch."

"Nobody should be treated the way my friends and I were at that McDonald's," said Eggers of Indianapolis, Indiana. "When we finally got to speak with a supervisor, she said she didn't see what the big deal was. I couldn't believe what was happening."

The supervisor on duty refused to refund the group's purchase, claiming that only the restaurant's general manager could authorize a refund. Marlatt said he attempted several times in the following weeks to contact both the general manager of the McDonald's and the corporate offices. But when he filed reports with a corporate customer service number for McDonald's, Marlatt said, he never received any sort of response, and every time he called the McDonald's where the incident took place the staff hung up on him.

"It may just be a few dollars for a Big Mac and some fries, but if I'm going to spend my hard earned money anywhere I should be able to do so without being verbally abused," said Marlatt. "The original name-calling was bad enough, but the fact that McDonald's refuses to do anything to make this right just adds injury to the insult."

The two patrons simply want an apology and a refund. Certainly the nationally gay-friendly Golden Arches doesn't need bad PR because of the bigots at one location in Kentucky.

The full complaint is here.

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Sad Meal
It sounds like this particular McDonalds may be owned by an AFA member.

Holy Crap
Would you like fries with that homophobic slur?

Franchise or corporate?
Does anyone know if this store is franchise or corporate?  If franchise, is there any way to identify the franchisee?

I'm wondering
if the Peter et al are going to continue to boycott McDonalds over this.  They are in fact taking sides in the so called "Culture War" that he and his ilk are the only ones fighting.

My America includes LGBT families.

It sounds like a District manager needs to clean out a nest of VIPERS
and if that doesn't happen, then THOUSANDS of queers need to show up in their f*cking parking lot and say we aren't taking this sh*t, the third level of attack will be to put this franchaise out of business with a BOYCOTT.

Any McDonalds patron should consider what they would do if this was a racial slur.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


I can't believe I'm doing this...
But I'm authoring a post defending McDonald's Inc.

This incident does seem out of character.  The problems I tend to have at Mcdonald's (invariably driving up when the extra-slow crew is on, or encountering an employee who is obnoxious toward everyone) clearly have nothing to to with bigotry.  Last year, my partner and I and our (then; now its three) two dogs stopped in at a McDonalds in Meridian, MS - not exactly the civil rights capital of the world - and everyone was as nice as can be, helping us get the dogs some water while we were snarfing out quarter-pounders.

Kat

>^..^<


Here's where I wrote McDonalds
   http://apps.mcdonalds.com/cont...
MY LETTER

An incidence of a Louisville KY restaurant on East Market Street on July 26, 2008

THIS needs a District manager to intervene YESTERDAY.
I have been supporting McDonalds in there being boycotted by AFA as an openly gay man, so I think you will appreciate that this incident offended THOUSANDS of LGBT patrons, and the customers who bore the brunt of these slurs have been ignored.
FIX this or this will spread even more through the LGBT community online. Pam's House Blend is an award winning blog in Black and LGBT communities and this will radiate out to other sites in hours.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


I had added the headline of the story and the link here ,in my letter.


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


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Hmmm
Maybe now the AFA will call off their boycott!

East Market McDonalds usually not a problem
I think the East Market McDonald's is right behind one of the few local gay bars, Tryangle's.  That McDonald's and Tryangles have been neighbors for years.  We used their lot when preparing for the Pride parade just this summer.  If that's the right fast food joint then it's not like gay people are a shock to them.  

Louisville is in the middle of a city wide blackout because of the winds from the last hurricane to make landfall.  I doubt that the power is on or the phone is working at that end of downtown.  


Queerty.com also covering this story
  http://www.queerty.com/mcdonal...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


And yet there's another AFA call to boycott
The AFA sent me an email about boycotting McDonald's just the other day.

I do expect their HR will fire the employees and the supervisor.  Maybe they can provide those losers with Don Wildmon's contact info so they can find a more suitable position.


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