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.
In the summer of 1959, Edwin Torres landed a $60-a-week job and wound up on the front page of El Diario. He had just been hired as the first Puerto Rican assistant district attorney in New York - and probably, he thinks, the entire United States.
He still recalls the headline: "Exemplary Son of El Barrio Becomes Prosecutor."
"You would've thought I had been named attorney general," he said. "That's how big it was."
Half a century later, the long and sometimes bittersweet history of Puerto Ricans in New York is expected to add a celebratory chapter today as the Senate confirms Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. Her personal journey - from a single-parent home in the Bronx projects to the Ivy League and an impressive legal career - has provoked a fierce pride in many other Puerto Ricans who glimpse reflections of their own struggles...
Really interesting article that I'd highly recommend reading the entirety of.
The Idaho Department of Correction has reached settlements in lawsuits with two transgender inmates who castrated themselves after they were denied feminizing hormone therapy.
The department has also changed its policy for identifying and treating transgender inmates, limiting the time inmates must wait for treatment, specifying how they may be diagnosed and clarifying when they qualify for hormone therapy...
Just because one is in jail doesn't mean that one shouldn't receive adequate treatment related to being trans.
John Hughes, the screenwriter, producer and director whose films captured the teenage zeitgeist of the 1980s, died suddenly of a heart attack today in New York City. He was 59.
Hughes, best known for 1980s movies such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," was taking a morning walk in Manhattan where he was visiting family, according to a statement from his representatives.
In the 1990s, he wrote and produced the "Home Alone" series, creating a box-office phenomenon and turning Macaulay Culkin into a star...
Many of his movies were the favorites of mine in young adulthood, for sure. Rest in peace, sir -- I appreciated your work.
With the convicted killer of transgender woman Angie Zapata serving life plus 60 years behind bars, his brother has taken to MySpace so that people can get to know the real Allen Andrade.
Autumn Sandeen, a transgender activist living in San Diego who covered the Zapata murder trial for Pam's House Blend, stumbled upon the page and reported on its contents for the Bilerico Project...
...Where I gave permission to Bil Browning to repost the piece I posted on Pam's House Blend there. Interesting that this story traveled so far, but it shows how much Angie Zapata's life and bias motivated murder has touched the soul of our broader lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
Like most restaurants, the Burger King in this St. Louis suburb has a no shoes, no shirt, no service policy.
And baby, do they enforce it.
Too much so, the company admitted, after apologizing for restaurant workers who asked a mother to leave because her 6-month-old wasn't wearing shoes.
Jennifer Frederich, her mother and Frederich's infant daughter, Kaylin, stopped at the Burger King in Sunset Hills on Sunday. The baby was shoeless - Frederich figured tiny baby feet were immune from the rule.
But workers told the family to leave because the shoeless baby was violating a health code...
Uh...yeah. By the way, the Burger King management is apologizing in person, and retraining staff. Good plan.
So anywho...It's an open thread! What are you reading or thinking about today?
A few years ago, when we still had time for such things, my husband and I belonged to a book group. One of the last books the group read before it's leader moved away (and, having become a first-time parent that year, I declined to be in charge of much else besides keeping myself in relatively clean clothes) sparked an exchange between me and my husband that came to mind as I watched the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings.
The book was Middlesex (a delightful read), and in one chapter the protagonist's family of Greek immigrants shopped for a new home. They encountered a real estate agent who asked how many relatives lived with them, and subtly directed them toward certain neighborhoods and away from one — where "ethnics" like themselves would "not fit in."
It hit me like a slap in the face. It sounded familiar, but different. To me, this fictional family was white. But in the time and place they occupied on the page they weren't "white enough."
"Oh my God!" I exclaimed. My husband, who was reading the same book, looked at me.
I looked up from the page, looked at him, and said with a note of wonder in my voice, "There are different shades of white."
"Yes," the son-of-Polish-immigrants that I married said, dryly. "There are."
Or at least there were. From the moment Judge Sotomayor's nomination was announced, it's become more and more evident that all those varied shades of white have since blended into a much paler, but more uniform, shade.
I was probably an annoying person to have around if you were watching the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. I was so frustrated listening to them that I couldn't help ... um ... talking back to the television. There is, after all, only so much the mind can take before it explodes.
At least, that's true of my mind. As for the minds of some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, last week was like a crash course of what I've often referred to as "self-evasion of the mind."
It was some time before I recognized “self evasion of the mind” as the act of contorting the mind so as not to have to see or acknowledge what is obvious to anyone who simply looks.
It's a phrase I learned from an admired college professor, and I've since expanded my understand of it to include contorting the mind in order that one may continue to hold conflicting views or beliefs, or engage in behavior that is diametrically opposed to your stated beliefs.
Basically, it's amounts to working very hard at not having a clue. Or, in the case of Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, working overtime at not having a clue.
The Women's Media Center has put together an amazing cavalcade of MSM pale males -- including Pat Buchanan, Rushbo, Glenn Beck, Dennis Miller, and the misogynist of the day, G. Gordon Liddy -- who sound like their testicles are shrinking at the thought of Sonia Sotomayor serving on the Supreme Court.
Since the announcement of Judge Sonia Sotomayors nomination to the Supreme Court, some in the media have engaged in sexist and racist attacks against her. Attacks have been overt and blatant. Some have been the repetition of extreme far right commentary, often packaged as news and endlessly discussed in mainstream media outlets.
Liddy's comment -- "Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something" is almost beyond belief.
If hormones and bad judgment are go hand-in-hand with being a woman for Liddy, how does he explain the bumper crop of men like John Ensign or Mark Sanford who show exceptional "judgment" based on their hormones?
UPDATE: Oh god. The right is really into the pigpen now, rolling in the filth. Look at this ad from a conservative judicial activist group called the Committee for Justice trying to tie Sotomayor to....drum roll please...BILL AYERS, as in supporting terrorism. I sh*t you not. Their logic? She served on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF).
But as the Hispanic National Bar Association - which is mainstream by any standard - wrote last week on behalf of 26 prominent national Hispanic groups: "PRLDEF is a mainstream and respected civil rights organization that serves not only the Latino community, but the nation as a whole." You can read more about the bar association's letter and PRLDEF here.
The New York Times and Washington Post are reporting that Sonia Sotomayor - a Hispanic, Catholic, female appellate court judge - is going to be the Obama Administration pick for the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The official announcement will come at 10:15AM EDT (7:15AM PDT).
At 10:00AM PDT (1:00PM EDT), the California Supreme Court is going to rule on the Prop 8 challenge.
Two Questions:
• Do you think the timing of this Supreme Court pick is designed to coincide with the California Supreme Court ruling? This will definitely force Republicans to discuss gay marriage and other social issues that will no doubt further their party image as one that seeks to divide America over social issues. (Am I being too cynical?)
• Do you think we'll get an official Obama Administration statement on the Prop 8 ruling? We didn't get statements on other recent events related to same gender marriage/marriage equality rulings and votes -- Do you think because of the Supreme Court pick (a focus on the law day) that the administration will have to respond, or do you think they'll just try to keep quiet?
• Weiner story of the day: San Francisco Chronicle's 
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