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.
UPDATE: I received Michael Guest's testimony. It is below the fold.
A hearing on the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009 (H.R. 2517), was held Wednesday before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia. Testifying on the bill:
WITNESS LIST
PANEL I
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-2-WI)
Mr. John Berry, Director, Office of Personnel Management
PANEL II
Ms. M. V. Lee Badgett, Research Director, The Williams Institute, UCLA Law School
Mr. Greg Franklin, Assistant Executive Officer, Health Benefits, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
Ms. Carolyn E. Wright, Vice President, Corporate Human Resources, American Airlines
PANEL III
Ms. Lorilyn Holmes, current federal employee; Reverend, Metropolitan Community Churches
Ambassador (ret.) Michael Guest, former career Foreign Service Officer
Dr. Frank Page, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Taylors; President, Southern Baptist Convention 2006
Statement on the legislation by Rea Carey, Executive Director National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund:
"Already, a majority of Fortune 500 companies offer their employees domestic partner benefits. So do more than 300 colleges and universities, more than 200 local governments and at least 19 states. This legislation has been endorsed by four major unions, together representing nearly two and a half million government employees.
"Polls conducted within the last year demonstrate that a majority of Americans believe that same-sex partners should receive federal benefits, and that fully 73 percent of the country believes that same-sex partners should be eligible for health insurance. Far from a radical social policy, this legislation would simply bring the federal government up to the standard endorsed by nearly three-fourths of U.S. taxpayers.
"In addition to the issue's fundamental fairness, the federal government's failure to provide domestic partner benefits also makes it significantly more difficult to recruit and retain the best people. Ambassador Michael Guest, who testified before the subcommittee this afternoon, recently left the State Department after being unable to secure health insurance benefits for his partner. Across the country, an unknown number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees have done the same, leaving government for jobs in the private sector, where benefit coverage for same-sex partners is much easier to find.
"It is unconscionable that the federal government, the country's largest civilian employer, does not already provide domestic partnership benefits. With this bill, the time has come to rectify this injustice. We thank the subcommittee for this hearing and we urge the House of Representatives to move swiftly to pass this important legislation."
