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.
This graphic is via OpenLeft, as you walk out of the Big Tent for the day, you don't get on the bus, you get to experience tire marks on you:
Having had a few hours of sleep (I will discuss the Rick Warren debacle on Glenn Greenwald's podcast at 6:30AM ET), I'll make a few more observations here in the wake of the explosions of anger about Barack Obama's desire to have evangelical pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation at the inauguration.
First of all, Warren was Barack Obama's selection. While it was announced by an inaugural committee, the buck stops with the man at the top of the food chain. He wouldn't have the anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-science, church-and-state-merging Warren up there if he didn't think it was a good idea. After all, they are friends despite the megachurch pastor's sandbagging of candidate Obama during the Saddleback forum re: choice.
While it's obvious that an invocation is just a prayer and that Warren is not part of the Obama administration, Warren taking the pulpit as some sort of olive branch to evangelicals and a show of unity and diversity is absurd and insulting symbolism. The fact that the Obama camp's talking points mention a LGBT marching band's presence during the official parade shows you how clueless (or calculating, you decide) these folks are.
A marching band is entertainment, someone up at a pulpit (whether you are of faith or not) delivering an invocation is an obvious, powerful symbol of a "message of the day" endorsed by the soon to be sworn-in president. It is delivered by the person selected because of who they are and what they stand for. The only feeble mitigating factor here might be that Warren, if he has any common sense, will not devote a word to his Dobsonesque bigotry should he take to the podium and give a simple blessing devoid of fundamentalist BS. I'm not holding my breath.
Warren: I'm opposed to an older guy marrying a child and calling that a marriage. I'm opposed to one guy having multiple wives and calling that marriage.
Steven Waldman: Do you think, though, that they are equivalent to having gays getting married?
Rick Warren: Oh I do. ...
He says he has gay friends and eaten in the homes of homos (are these the same invisible gay friends of Sarah Palin?), but he believes their desire to marry will destroy the institution of marriage, as if the skyrocketing divorce rate he cites in the video isn't doing the job quite well.
Warren worked hard to pass Prop 8 in California to remove existing rights of a group of people under the guise of "free speech." I wonder how his imaginary gay buddies felt about that.
* How about advocates for reproductive freedom? Rick Warren and his positions on gays have taken up a lot of traffic on the Intertubes, but quite frankly, Obama has offended a much larger slice of his supporters as well. Warren doesn't want to make abortion rare, he compares it to the Holocaust.
"Don't tell me it should be rare. That's like saying on the Holocaust, 'Well, maybe we could save 20 percent of the Jewish people in Poland and Germany and get them out and we should be satisfied with that,'" Warren said. "I'm not satisfied with that. I want the Holocaust ended."
I guess that makes all women who have had to deal with the gut-wrenching decision are all little Hitlers to Warren. In fact this means he believes a fertilized egg is a person, and he wants you to treat it as a fetus-citizen -- and all the legal and ethical chaos that entails. I don't think there is any way to bridge that gap with those who believe in reproductive freedom -- or the separation of church and state for that matter.
I think the questions we need to ask ourselves as we continue this debate is to acknowledge what the Obama folks are trying to do -- present a wide berth of beliefs in a show of unity for one day, but give them no slack in letting them know this selection didn't hit the mark with anyone, as far as I can tell. This situation was completely avoidable; he could have selected other evangelicals whose views on these hot button issues were moderate.
Having had a few hours of sleep (I will discuss the Rick Warren debacle on 
