I've made it to the initial round for favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. I have to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins, so your vote is appreciated! First voting round:
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 is a guest post by Jennifer Chrisler of the Family Equality Council; as executive director for the organization, she attended the Presidential limited federal benefits extension signing ceremony last week. Chrisler is also one of the invitees at the White House's upcoming commemoration of Stonewall, billed by the administration as an event in the vein of its St. Patrick's Day or Cinco de Mayo fetes. Jennifer is here to share her view that this social gathering is an opportunity for members of the community to meet with the President and convey their thoughts about progress (or the lack thereof) and to keep open communication channels with those who can effect change.
Of course there are others who do not share Chrisler's view, and believe that the social event should be boycotted and is nothing more than a dog-and-pony show opportunity for this White House, with those attending being used as PR props. I'll give my personal take at the end of the essay.
Now -- I shouldn't have to remind anyone, but I will -- civility is key here on the Blend, particularly with content that may be polarizing. It's healthy to have spirited, cordial debate in the comments between readers, the diarists and baristas, not attacks; consider this the one and only trapdoor warning. --Pam
Movement Malpractice?
By Jennifer Chrisler, Executive Director of Family Equality Council
Malpractice is defined as engaging in professional wrongdoing that will result in harm.
As one of those many leaders across the country fighting for equality for LGBT families, failure to accept the President's invitation to meet with him at the White House this coming Monday would be committing "Movement malpractice."
For more years than I care to remember we have bemoaned the lack of access and the lack of progress at the federal level for LGBT equal rights. It is no surprise then that after years of toiling to elect fair-minded leaders, and with the assumption that we now have that in the White House and the Congress, we want action and we want it swiftly. When we¹ve struggled as a community for more years than we care to count to achieve equality and we believe for the first time that it is now achievable, our hopes are incredibly high. The knife of disappointment cuts that much deeper and the wounds take much longer to heal.
But that anger, justified as it may be, is no reason to stage a walk off. Time and time again LGBT people have suffered painful setbacks in our struggle to achieve equality. Giving up and walking away from the work is not an option for effective leaders. Each time, we must re-group and re-strategize for the challenges ahead. Walking away from the opportunity to meet with the leader of the free world to make our case for equality yet again would be movement malpractice on my part.
That is why I will be at the White House on Monday, commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots. I will be there in the spirit of those who stood up for themselves and all of us in June 1969. If anything, it insults those who came before us, on whose shoulders we stand, to not acknowledge the birth of the modern LGBT rights movement at the invitation of the President of the United States.
Movement Malpractice?
