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.
UPDATE: Jackson and the Alliance Defense Fund have filed suit against the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics over its refusal to allow an initiative to ban same-sex marriage. And BFF Tony Perkins has put John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management and the highest ranking openly gay official in the Obama administration in the bullseye.In what has to be one of the shoddiest bits of journalism since its boot-licking profile of NOM's Brian Brown, the Washington Post's Wil Haygood fails to do even a cursory use of TEH GOOGLE to discover anything negative about the reputation of professional homophobe, carpetbagger and useful tool of the religious right, Bishop Harry Jackson. Protect your keyboards, because the desire to hurl will be almost uncontrollable after this snippet from "Seeking to put asunder: Despite D.C. setback, Bishop Jackson carries his national message -- and mission -- against gay marriage":
Setbacks seem only to embolden him. "All over the country, it's evident that the strategy of the radical gay movement is to work the courts and legislatures," Jackson says. "It's gonna be a knock-down, drag-out legal situation."
His neck is thick -- nearly stretching the clerical collar -- and his voice is smooth as molasses. "I just feel like I'm on a mission," he says. "It's not a mission of hate. It's a mission to protect godly boundaries."
Using his Pentecostal congregation, Hope Christian Church, as a springboard, he has founded the High Impact Leadership Coalition, which comprises ministers who plow into national moral dilemmas. In addition to same-sex marriage, the coalition focuses on abortion, two hot-button issues that cause liberals and conservatives to cross swords.
His admirers have multiplied, and so have his critics. More than once, police have stopped by his Southeast Washington apartment to check on his safety. His mother, Essie, calls her son's crusade one of "holy boldness."
Jackson calls it stopping the erosion of the black family.
It goes on and on about his godly background. I've got a Blend archive chock full of pitiful and enraging exhibits of Jackson fomenting his bigotry, in particular serving up arguments meant to stoke black relgious voters to take positions against civil equality.
This man is infesting DC, framing the marriage equality issue as the "privileged white gays" are working to deny black voters the right to vote on the issue" -- that's a powerful (and sick) message to cultivate. And he did it.
It should be noted that the profile of Clergy United for Marriage Equality was covered by the Washington Post. Kudos to the paper for doing this; with that already published, it should have been referenced along with Jackson's long history of working against equality, reproductive freedom and a host of other issues supported by the religious zealots. Without context, we're left with the impression that Jackson indeed holds sway over the majority of black religious voters in the district.
Peter Montgomery at People for the American Way penned an expose of Bishop Jackson's escapades shuffling and shilling for the bible-beaters, "Point Man for the Wedge Strategy: Harry Jackson is the face of the Religious Right's outreach to African American Christians." It is a must-read. Perhaps Wil Haygood should be politely alerted to some facts. Generally in a profile piece of this nature, certainly with one about a controversial figure like Jackson, the reporter should have had Jackson address some of the numerous intolerant quotes and positions he's taken, but no, this is a puff piece that makes the WaPo look like the PR firm of the fundamentalist right instead of a major newspaper.
Referendum 71 activities in Washington State have kept me so busy that I've had little time to watch marriage equality events unfolding in the other Washington. But when I saw this delicious article by Tim Craig in today's Washington Post, called "Pastors unite to support same-sex marriage in D.C.", I just had to stop and take a look. A quote from the article encapsulates what we here at The Blend have known but some in the general public may just be catching on to: 'There is this myth out there that you can't be pro-God and pro-gay'.
[T]he Rev. Christine Y. Wiley...noted that many District churches have a history of fighting for social and economic justice. ... "It just really seemed like a natural thing that we would do," Wiley said. "We believe as African Americans who have been discriminated against . . . we don't have the right to discriminate against anyone else."
Kinda busts that religious and/or black = anti-gay myth wide open, doesn't it? And lest you think these two are some kind of token or anomaly, read on below the fold.
Ah yes, that's entertainment. The videos are finally up from Jackson's hilarious-if-it-weren't-so-offensive appearance at the Values Voter Summit (my earlier post here). Hat tip to Josh Glasstetter of Right Wing Watch.
Video buffoonery # 1: My right wing friends here better tone down their racist criticism of President Obama because it's making it hard for me to do my homophobic jiu-jitsu on D.C. blacks to organize against gays.
Video buffoonery # 2: Jackson tries to stir up the homophobiad by charging the condo-dwelling, white gay lawyer elites are trying to hurt poor single black moms, and prevent them from voting to save marriage from the deviants.
ROTFLOL. Well, Harry, you laid down in bed with these people and are just now realizing they also wear the sheets? (Right Wing Watch):
Bishop Harry Jackson, the Religious Right's favorite African American preacher, asked the mostly white participants at the Values Voter Summit to tone down their anti-Obama rhetoric. He knew they weren't racists, he explained, but the fact that some people were sounding like racists made it even harder on him as a conservative trying to get other black clergy to join his anti-gay organizing in D.C.
While asking summit participants to be less offensive, Jackson's Saturday afternoon speech may have actually reached some new personal lows of offensive rhetoric.
Jackson utterly ignored the existence of African American LGBT people and their leadership in the pro-equality movement in the District of Columbia. He portrayed the battle over marriage equality in DC as a battle pitting rich gay lawyers against black clergy and poor single mothers. Jackson's litany was a perfect example of the race- and class-baiting he is using to rouse opposition to marriage equality in the District. "Many of our gay people," he said, are professionals, disproportionately educated, make a lot of money, are living in DC's fancy new condos. Jackson said a "K Street lawyer who decides to come out and call himself gay" cannot understand the plight of a single mother in Washington, DC raising two kids without a father. This seems to be from his new gays-vs-blacks talking points. Hey, Rev. Jackson, what about all the LGBT people in DC who aren't rich lawyers, who are people of color, who are raising kids without the legal protections of marriage? Maybe he hasn't spent enough time in his new hometown to meet any of them yet.
I think we've got the good reverend by the short ones because what he's saying is that he can't successfully do his homobigoted Jiu-Jitsu on the black folks in the district to fight marriage equality if the right's teabaggers, birthers and crazies keep spewing anti-Obama racist tripe. I can't wait for the video of his BS to surface from the VV Summit.
Apparently he also calls for God to strike down the wicked, which also surely includes LGBTs, women who engage in reproductive freedom, etc. -- they are faux Christians and God's going to punish them. Why do I not think adulterers and hypocrites in the pulpit get a pass into heaven in Jackson's world.
This is outlandish. Harry Jackson, the loudmouth carpetbagging preacher from Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland is filing to collect signatures to put marriage equality on the ballot in DC. In order to raise the profile of his anti-gay efforrt, he's also released a video targeting voters from other states. He wants them to pressure Congress to act and review the DC City Council's vote to recognize marriage equality.
''Let me share with you, one of the unique dynamics of DC that makes your prayer, your involvement, your writing your Congressman so very important: Currently, every law that is passed in DC has got to be approved by the Congress. In other words, DC does not really have 'home rule.' Once they pass a law, that law has 30 days in which Congress, in its legislative sessions can decide that the city should not take the measure that they have taken. So, right now, we have the opportunity to block same-sex marriage reciprocity. We have an opportunity to block the rise of an overt same-sex marriage law by having your Congressman say, 'Not on my watch.' And tell them, the people must decide... We can turn this thing around by signatures for a referendum. And we can say yes to marriage, no to same-sex reciprocity, no to the land becoming a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, because you've reached out and responded to your Congressman.... What happens in DC, doesn't stay in DC.''
This man is infesting DC with his bigotry and it's clear what he is going to do -- he is going to pit the black community against the largely white out LGBT community there, framing it as all the "privileged white gays" working to deny black voters the right to vote on an issue -- that's a powerful, sick message to cultivate. And he will do it. And there will be precious few out POC stepping up to refute his charges.
I just had to share this ridiculous clip of Bishop Harry Jackson's flaming pile of crap about health care reform. He held an entertainingly dumb event at the National Press Club held by the National Black Pro-Life Union & Priests for Life.
While babbling his belief that equal access to health care will result in black genocide as the abortion floodgates open, He adds that it's "reverse classist." I found myself staring at the nasty red weave of that woman behind Jackson. If you have to buy your hair, spend more than $20. There are good weaves, and then there is the obvious fake stuff on her head.
Bishop Harry Jackson, who spent the last few months meddling in DC politics to stop same-sex marriage recognition in the District with his homo-hating dog and pony show with Marion Barry (big FAIL on that one), has teamed up with a couple of equally homophobic token blacks of the fringe to write an open letter to the President about their fear for the fate of the institution of marriage.
What has motivated he and Niger Innis of the Congress on Racial Equality, Dr. William Owens, Sr. of Concerned African-American Pastors, Bishop Dale Bronner of Word of Faith Family Worship Center in Atlanta, GA, and Pastor Terry Millender of Victorious Life Church in Alexandria, VA to write the missive are two events that weirded them out:
1. The President's cocktail party with A-Gays to mark the Stonewall Riot 40th anniversary celebration at the White House. Jackson is angry that Obama has not met with he and his homophobic black clergy friends to date. (I'm sure the invitation is coming, Harry).
2. The legal cases contesting the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)that are piling up, particularly the one out of Massachusetts last week.
You have to read the letter to believe it; it isn't even good enough to be fish wrap, as they use hoary stereotypes and misleading frantic drivel about saving the roles in traditional marriage to "confirm" that marriage equality is not a civil right because homosexuality is a behavior and shouldn't be protected by law. Of course religious beliefs and going to church is a behavior, so even if their premise held true, what's the point? Oh, that's right, one would need to be tethered to reality. Never mind. It's below the fold.
The National Organization for Marriage and Bishop Harry Jackson were expecting thousands of "Christians" to show up at today's rally in Washington, DC that was supposed to intimidate the City Council, which recently cast a preliminary vote in favor of recognizing same-sex marriages.
Jackson had a much smaller crowd than the thousands he had hoped for. As the rally began, there were well under 100 people; by the end there may have been close to 200. They were an enthusiastic bunch, shouting the Devil is a liar and other encouragement to the speakers. Jackson made excuses about how little time they had to mobilize, but promised to pack the Council chambers on May 5 for the next vote. Jackson said his group would be distributing inserts for churches to include in their bulletins this Sunday.
Also making an appearance was former DC Mayor and current councilman Marion "The bitch set me up" Barry.
Jackson was joined at the podium by representatives of the Missionary Baptist pastors network as well as several Hispanic pastor group representatives, as well as the Family Research Councils Tony Perkins, who made a few unremarkable remarks. Focus on the Familys James Dobson sent a letter supporting Jackson and attacking the members of the D.C. Council. To this D.C. resident, the most disappointing moment was former Mayor and current Councilmember Marion Barry leading the crowd in chants against marriage equality (though he noted that he supports civil unions).
...There was also some edgier anti-gay rhetoric. Jackson compared marriage between gay couples to marriage between close relatives, or between "a man and a three-year old." One of the final speakers was a Rev. Daniels, who Jackson recruited for the rally from Florida. He was fixated on gay sex acts, repeatedly urging people to "explain the act" because it would turn people's stomachs and turn them against marriage equality.
Why are these people fixated on sex acts? I swear to God, these bible beaters have more sex on the brain than most gay folks I know. According to the WaPo, its estimate of attendance was "about 150."
Here's Jackson's speech, via the Washington Blade's coverage. On the right, Marion Barry spouts off about morality, of all things (video courtesy of Right Wing Watch). It's sad to see all those black people out there supporting bigotry.
Below the fold, another special guest that breaks the insanity meter.
I do know that one of the fundies attending is Bishop Harry Jackson, who ironically, caused a bit of a stir among the hardcore base because of a shift toward support of civil unions last year, a nod to the fact that his side is losing the culture war.
"My concern about John McCain stepping up and being articulate about the marriage amendments is more about protecting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman as cultural guardrails...The reason I say I will work with civil unions, etc. -- that may not have been my original position, but I think it's a reality. We have had laws in New Jersey, all over the country. The reality is gay civil unions are going to be the law of the land all over the country...You may call it movement [on my part.] I call myself a realist...I think this would be a split issue [on the Christian right], a lot of people would disagree with me. But I think we're embroiled in a battle that's unfolding."
Jackson's above statements don't square with he has said as recently as this month. From PFAW's profile of Jackson:
Jackson insists that he's not anti-gay, and often works hard to sound reasonable. He repeatedly told reporters last year that his effort to pass anti-marriage initiatives last year was not an attack on gays but based on his concern that "redefining" marriage could make it extinct in the African American community. But it's awfully hard to square Jackson's assertions that he's not anti-gay with his repeated accusations that gays are Satan-inspired enemies of religious freedom who have "hijacked" the civil rights movement and are out to shut down the church in America.
Gays as satanic: Shortly before the 2004 election, Jackson outlined a strategy for defeating the "gay agenda," writing, "Gays have been at the helm of a fourfold strategy for years, but the wisdom behind their spiritual, cultural, political, and generational tactics is clearly satanic." In 2007, he blamed the advance of hate crimes legislation on the fact that "the authority of the evil one in the nation has continued to ascend and get stronger and bolder." And at the Jamestown celebration that year, he said, "And so what we are dealing with is an insidious intrusion of the Devil to try to cut off the voice of the church, and I for one am not going to let that happen."
Gays as enemies of religious liberty: Jackson is a tireless proponent of the falsehood that gay-rights advocates are eager to shut down churches' and pastors' freedom to preach against homosexuality. He argues that most items on gay rights supporters' policy agenda - including anti-discrimination legislation, hate crimes laws, and marriage equality - are all dire threats to that freedom. One of his columns, in fact, was titled, "Why Do Gays Hate Religious Freedom?"
In 2007, Jackson also organized a group of African American pastors to sign a false and misleading newspaper ad that called the hate crimes bill a threat to free speech, freedom of conscience, and freedom of religion, and urged Senators, "Don't Muzzle our Pulpits!"
...[O]n the April 21, 2009 broadcast of Janet Porter's radio show, Jackson portrayed federal hate crimes legislation and marriage equality as "an assault on the gospel" and "one unified battle that is being brought to us by the radical gays." It started, he said, with the repeal of sodomy laws, and "ultimately they want the ability, at the end of the day, is to stop the preaching of the gospel."
As we can see, the bearing false witness comes as naturally to pious people like Jackson as breathing. How can anyone take what he says seriously? Well, in the end it doesn't matter, because he's trying to appeal to black socially conservative religious blacks, and many eat up this drivel. This is a problem that has to be addressed.
And now he's for civil unions. Friday's appearance of professional "Christian" and anti-gay activist Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition on The Michelangelo Signorile Show turned out to be more newsworthy than expected.
Mike had planned to discuss the revelations about the GOP nominee's socially out, professionally closeted Senate chief of staff, Mark Buse, winner of BlogActive's Roy Cohn Award, and Sarah Palin's answer to the gay marriage question during last week's debate with Joe Biden. While those topics came up, it was Jackson's response to the question of the religious right's schism over what to do about LGBT rights generally, since they see the handwriting on the wall - they are losing on the issue of denying civil rights to us. There has been a curious silence on the Palin's performance from Dobson, Bauer and Perkins. Jackson, no wallflower when it comes to getting on the MSM, explained why.
Mike:
What's even more interesting is that Jackson, possibly reflecting other leaders and possibly showing the beginning of a split on gay rights among evangelicals, now says he's in favor of a national civil unions or domestic partnership scheme -- because he's being "realistic" -- even as he still is opposed to gay marriage:
"My concern about John McCain stepping up and being articulate about the marriage amendments is more about protecting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman as cultural guardrails...The reason I say I will work with civil unions, etc. -- that may not have been my original position, but I think it's a reality. We have had laws in New Jersey, all over the country. The reality is gay civil unions are going to be the law of the land all over the country...You may call it movement [on my part.] I call myself a realist...I think this would be a split issue [on the Christian right], a lot of people would disagree with me. But I think we're embroiled in a battle that's unfolding."
Here is the first part of Mike's interview with Jackson:
Obviously, there a couple of obvious questions I'd have for Bishop Jackson:
* If he is for civil unions, does that mean he will come out against marriage amendments that ban CUs or domestic partnerships?
* Who are the fellow evangelicals who are not in favor of Jackson's moderated position? Tony Perkins, who wrote a book with Jackson, may hold a similar view. Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, who's barely tethered to reality, is probably a hardcase. Who knows where Daddy D. is.
And The Peter? I hardly think he's ready to accept any sort of reality-based thinking on these issues.
Professional "Christian" homophobe Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition will be on the Michelangelo Signorile Show (SiriusOutQ, Channel 109) at 4:30 PM ET today. He's going to share his reaction to the Washington Blade interview with John McCain, and what he thought of Sarah Palin's statement about marriage and "tolerance" during last night's debate.
"That's the reason why this little thing was leaked," says Jackson. "The pro-gay, anti-church groups see themselves in a death-lock in a war -- and they hope to create a sense of disunity among Christians around [the question] 'can we really trust McCain?'"
According to Jackson, the announced "outing" of Buse is a calculated political move. "I think this attack has come at this moment because of the issues of marriage amendments in these states and the issue of a pro-family agenda," the pastor suggests. "And I wish [McCain] was more engaged positively, because he's getting the negative attack no matter what."
Perkins, who paid former KKK Wizard, cosmetic-surgery-enhanced, self-proclaimed head of the "European American" movement, David Duke, $82K for his mailing list in 1996, joined forces with Bishop Harry Jackson, the senior pastor of Hope Christian Church and chairman of the High-Impact Leadership Coalition (and stand-in spot of color for the anti-gay obsessed religious right establishment) to write a tome giving advice on how to achieve victories in seven areas that will result in "vanquishing the big problem facing our country--moral decay."
OK. You can stop laughing now. What are the seven areas?
(UPDATE: The 365gay web site has removed the article. There is an vague message there "Correction: On Monday 365gay.com published a story on an anti-gay rally in Annapolis, Maryland. The story was based on incorrect information and has been removed." It would be good to know which aspects of the article aren't correct. So for now, I'll strike the news article about the rally, but Jackson's views are well-documented. )
Bishop Harry Jackson, chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, and pastor of Hope Christian Church in Maryland, is one of the organizers of an anti-gay protest over a bill that would allow gays and lesbians to marry in the state. (365gay):
Within hours of the introduction of the measure conservative groups had mustered about 1,000 people for a demonstration in front of the State House.
Most of the speakers were from area churches, demanding an amendment to the state constitution to bar gay and lesbian couples from tying the knot.
"This gathering is an expression of the desire of the Christian community in Maryland," said Rev. Harry Jackson Jr., one of the organizers.
Jackson later said that it was irrelevant that the bill includes a caveat allowing churches to refuse to marry same-sex couples. Jackson said that any attempt to give credence to same-sex marriage was destructive to traditional families.
Jackson believes that the only sanctioned sexual expression we understand in the bible is the man-woman relationship within a marriage, and that gays and lesbians are somehow inherently under-equipped to raise a child because there is not a father/mother-headed family.
The evangelical pastor and Town Hall columnist has a serious victim complex; apparently the passage of hate crimes legislation would be a sign that the Homosexual Agenda has won and Christian persecution is around the corner -- it will lead to the imprisonment of pastors for quoting Leviticus. Read the hysteria after the jump.
Bishop Harry Jackson is at it again at Town Hall. The homobigoted head of the High Impact Leadership Coalition is fretting about the power of the Homosexual Agenda and pending hate crimes legislation in his column "Why Do Gays Hate Religious Freedom?"
[G]ay activists around the country are getting nervous that they are about to experience an embarrassing political setback. Instead of amending the hate crimes legislation that protects churches in a substantive way, they are simply crying out in a louder, more threatening manner. Gay advocates are not looking for fairness; they are looking for an upper hand. [We're really doing well at getting that upper hand, with all those state amendments in place, huh?]
...Both gays and blacks should get justice in America, but we cannot allow either group to receive special privileges at the expense of another group of Americans. If the loopholes in this legislation are not closed, Christians and Bible-teaching churches could become victims of a strange brand of reverse discrimination. These actions are tantamount to the gay community saying, "Freedom for me, but bondage for you." This attitude is just not consistent with America's ideals. [BZZZT. The current hate crimes law -- which covers religion and race, for example -- hasn't placed a bullseye on constitutionally protected speech or worship.]
Despite the fact that legal experts like the Alliance Defense Fund and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberties confirm the legal legitimacy of my concerns, gay activists quoted in the US Today article called my concerns "completely bogus." Their hope is to paint all outspoken leaders of faith as narrow minded Neanderthals and bigots who are out of touch with the will of the nation. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Major Christian ministries around the nation have begun to lift their voices to join in a chorus of concern about the potential muzzling of our pulpits. Radio and television ministries are trumpeting warnings to the faithful. Many have produced special programs to inform the average Christian citizen about the impending dangers to their freedoms. As a result, there is a ground swell of popular opposition to the Senate's proposed Hate Crimes Bill emerging from grass roots America.
And look at this ridiculous ad from Jackson and his homobigot friends in the pulpit:
Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin tears this BS campaign to shreds and offers a challenge:
Focus on the Family, Exodus, Family Research Council, Traditional Values Coalition, Mission America -- all of them have repeated some serious outright lies about what the proposed legislation would do. And several individuals associated with these organizations have done the same.
And so here's a challenge. I have posted the actual proposed legislation in full on my web site. You will find the text after the jump below. I dare them to do the same. And I challenge them to point to any part of the bill which would usurp the First Amendment.
In what has to be one of the shoddiest bits of journalism since its 
This man of God beds down with the anti-gay-for-pay Beltway set, most closely with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. He even wrote a book with him, 
But the fact that Jackson has a large following doesn't mean "might makes right." In Washington, DC, he's not the only voice of faith in the community. The Reverends Christine Y. Wiley & Dennis W. Wiley of 
Ah yes, that's entertainment. The videos are finally up from Jackson's hilarious-if-it-weren't-so-offensive appearance at the Values Voter Summit (
ROTFLOL. Well, Harry, you laid down in bed with these people and are just now realizing they also wear the sheets? (
Bishop Harry Jackson, who spent the last few months meddling in DC politics to stop same-sex marriage recognition in the District with his homo-hating dog and pony show with Marion Barry (big FAIL on that one), has teamed up with a couple of equally homophobic token blacks of the fringe to
According to Chino Blanco's diary, "
I just got home and flipped on the TV to CNN and lo and behold, nausea set in.
