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.
Floating on a lurid sea of male symbols pornographically piercing female symbols is a picture of the Nelson family of Ozzie and Harriet fame. This is a new leaflet from the opponents of domestic partnerships in Washington state. The page title reads "There is something very good in this picture", with arrows drawn to "Dad" and "Mom". The following is written on the bottom of the last page of the leaflet
On the cover is a photo of the most traditional American Families [sic] from the 1950's television series, Ozzie & Harriet. David and Ricky Nelson really had it pretty good. They had a normal mother and father and grandparents. We simply want this for tomorrow's children and families.
Indeed they made a beautiful family, and for all I know were blissful together. But that didn't result in sons David and Ricky Nelson growing up to be good fathers or husbands.
Ricky's wife Kristin gave birth 6 months after their wedding. After making 3 more children, they divorced.
David had two kids with his first wife, divorced and then remarried.
The leaflet authors would label such people fornicators, adulterers and home-wreckers. Much like several of the leaflet authors themselves. Rep. Matt Shea is divorced, campaign manager Larry Stickney has divorced twice and married three times, and I have it on good authority that campaign attorney and strategist Stephen Pidgeon is on his fourth marriage, leaving children dotted across several states. Did the many children these men produced have the benefit of their biological father at home?
The Nelson family picture and the men politicizing it are proof that being raised by your biological parents guarantees nothing. It is a red herring. But one thing is guaranteed if we fail to Approve Referendum 71: heterosexual seniors may not be able to care for one another in times of crisis, and the children of same-sex parents will be financially disadvantaged and legally vulnerable. Protecting ALL Washington families is the Washingtonian way.
How appropriate that they placed a "close window" symbol on that page. The leaflet should be composted. The other 3 leaflet panels are just as ripe for rebuttal. They're pasted below the fold. Have at 'em.
Gay divorcee Matt Shea (R-Mead) can't find a way to justify his discriminatory anti-child, anti-family Referendum 71, so he's trying to gain voter sympathy by preemptively claiming victimhood in a letter to the editor. As part of a community whose members actually do get bullied to death, raped, beaten and murdered daily, I can only shake my head in disbelief at wolf Shea's snarling from beneath sheep's clothing. It's a terribly craven and pathetic attempt to distract voters from the fact that Gary Randall and Larry Stickney have yet to tell petition signers whether they'll sell, trade or use in-house all the juicy personal information they've already copied from the R-71 petitions.
WhoSigned.org is promising to publish, on the Internet, personal information of those signing Referendum 71 to "prevent voter fraud" and "foster discussion." Yet, that's not what happened recently in California when a similar website published personal information. Marriage Amendment supporters there had homes and churches vandalized, lost jobs and faced threats of violence and death.
Alliance Defense Fund is involved in a major lawsuit to stop such a flagrant misuse of public information. ADF has set up a hotline (1-xxx-xxx-xxxx) and website www.telladf.org/r71 for Washingtonians who believe they've suffered retaliation because their names appeared on WhoSigned.org.
The anti-child, anti-family folks at Protect Marriage Washington (Larry Stickney) and its non-cooperative competitor Faith & Freedom PAC (Gary Randall) have "released" a video. It has the catchy title "R-71: Lawmakers Encourage Christian Participation!" and features state senator Val Stevens and representative Matt Shea.
I'd post the video here, but apparently they don't want this gem to go viral (because who would want a promotional video to have legs?). The video host gave me this message
Sorry. The creator of this video has not given you permission to embed it on this domain.
To view it, you'll have to go to PMW's home office or to a video hosting website that Gary linked to in a recent email (interestingly he hasn't posted the video on any of his several websites.). Note that Larry and Gary are so much on the outs that Gary stillrefuses to link to any PMW web page, or even refer to the existence of "that other organization".
I wonder who masterminded this brilliant video? Whoever it was plopped Stevens and Shea in a funeral parlor sitting room and gave Stevens whole agonizing minutes to haltingly read Larry Stickney's debunked bwaking points from a note pad.
The video opens with a crotch shot of the gay divorcee Shea. Watch Shea's eyes wander as Stevens plods through her reading assignment. I'll warn you, the video is a real snoozer. Heads will nod in darkened sanctuaries. I recommend that clergy show it before communion if they use real wine.
Bonus track: Watch Larry Stickney admit that there isn't enough non-dominionist church support to get this referendum on the ballot.
Same-sex divorce...is 8 times higher among homosexual men, and 300 times higher among homosexual women.
Pidgeon said these numbers were from a study looking at France, but there can be no study on the divorce rate of same-sex couples in France because same-sex marriage is not legal in France. Similar wild and unsubstantiated numbers have been fabricated by many anti-family activists. Larry Stickney has posted a video of Pidgeon speaking this lie on the Protect Marriage Washington website (they're the Referendum 71 people).
I decided to check the actual, meaningful numbers here in Washington. Not same-sex divorce rate, because as in France, same-sex couples can't get married in Washington. But domestic partnership dissolution rates. After reviewing the numbers, I can see why Pidgeon resorted to make-believe; reality just doesn't jive with his apparent need to vilify gay families.
Who knew that the executive session of a House committee could be so riveting? I only tuned in for the satisfaction of hearing SB 5688, the Domestic Partnership Expansion Bill of 2009, get the stamp of approval from the House Judiciary Committee. That happened, but not before the committee debated and voted on fourteen (14!) amendments** to the bill.
Reading the summaries of these amendments, I had to ask why in the world would their authors embarrass themselves by wasting valuable committee time debating what were redundant, out of scope, mean spirited and sometimes unconstitutional amendments? Well, the answer came, at least in part, in some emails today (see below flip).
**The amendments, WHICH ALL FAILED, did things like restate the state's DOMA law; make legal loopholes for religious people who discriminate; establish a 1 year residency req't for marrying or DPing here; establish a 1913 law; parental consent on any curriculum particle any parent may disapprove of; place a referendum clause in the bill.
Floating on a lurid sea of male symbols pornographically piercing female symbols is a picture of the Nelson family of Ozzie and Harriet fame. This is a new leaflet from the opponents of domestic partnerships in Washington state. The page title reads "There is something very good in this picture", with arrows drawn to "Dad" and "Mom". The following is written on the bottom of the last page of the leaflet
WhoSigned.org is promising to publish, on the Internet, personal information of those signing Referendum 71 to "prevent voter fraud" and "foster discussion." Yet, that's not what happened recently in California when a similar website published personal information. Marriage Amendment supporters there had homes and churches vandalized, lost jobs and faced threats of violence and death.
To view it, you'll have to go to PMW's home 
Bonus track: Watch Larry Stickney 
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