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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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Sat Dec 06, 2008 at 16:28:03 PM EST
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 Today the National LGBT Blogger and Citizen Journalist Initiative went over to join attendees of the 24th International Gay & Lesbian Leadership Conference for a luncheon where I moderated the panel "Winning Coalitions for the Common Good" (full program here).
The amazing Kate Clinton (L), who came up to me to say what a fan she is of the Blend (and the Blenders!), introduced me, I gave a short statement in advance of the panel discussion. It's below the fold. |
| Pam Spaulding :: Shameless celebrity moment at the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Conference |
I would like to thank Victory Fund and the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute for organizing this panel.
Today I'm here with my colleagues from the National LGBT Blogger and Citizen Journalist Initiative that is being held just a few blocks away. In many ways the issues we are discussing there have much in common with those this panel will address. In our workshops we are dealing with long-simmering communication challenges between blogs, traditional LGBT media, elected officials, community leaders and LGBT advocacy organizations. We're meeting to learn how to build mutually beneficial ties as we advance, report on, and provide commentary about the LGBT rights movement. The bottom line is that we have to add effective communication tools to our toolboxes to make that happen.
And here we, at your conference, to being a discussion about how to achieve similar goals on a different front -- how to build stronger coalitions, in this case between the LGBT community and communities of color, labor, women, the faith community and other potential political allies for the common good. And that involves developing a framework for productive dialogue in the wake Prop 8. In the blogosphere the reactions were raw, long-simmering tensions were unearthed in a very public way.
The fact is, this wasn't surprising to those of us who inhabit both worlds as LGBT people of color. What it laid bare was the long-standing dire need for better communication between the LGBT movement and communities of color, and discussion about LGBT issues within communities of color. So I see this as an amazing opportunity for all of us to add tools to our toolboxes to reach our common goal of equality. The panelists were Kathryn Kolbert, President of People for the American Way; Assemblymember John Pérez, California State Assembly; Robert Raben, Founder, The Raben Group; and Dr. Kenneth Samuel, African American Ministers Leadership Council and they did an excellent job of negotiating some difficult territory rife with land mines. There should be some video of this later; the whole session was taped by the conference folks.
Related:
* Open thread - flicks and pics from the conference
* Shameless celebrity moment at the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Conference (Kate Clinton)
* This Trip's $30 Keyboard (Autumn)
* The National LGBT Blogger and Citizen Journalist Initiative |
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