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.
Racial-discrimination lawsuits against a private Montgomery County swimming club over its revoked contract with a Philadelphia day camp could cost enough to threaten the Valley Club's existence.
Attorneys, club members, and tax records indicated that a pair of federal-court lawsuits - one filed, one promised - could cost the club more money than it has and possibly leave board members liable for civil-rights verdicts.
"The only asset we have is the land, which housing developers have been trying to buy for years," said Bonnie Bacich, a Valley Club member for 30 years.
"The outrage of having to go through this, with an African American president in 2009 - we don't take this kind of stuff lightly in America anymore," said Montgomery County civil-rights lawyer Brian Wiley, who is not involved in the case lawsuit.
Wiley said fighting the issue in court could prove a fiscal challenge to the tax-exempt, nonprofit club, which listed $210,193 in assets in its most recent federal filing. "That club's got to settle that case," he said.
The best solution for this matter is for the club to go belly up and have some rich black person -- how about Bill Cosby, who hails from Philly -- buy up the land and open up a club where anyone can take a dip in the purity pool.
The problem for the purity pool folks is that the kids turned away from the club, having been traumatized by the racist comments hurled at them by swim club members during that infamous visit, don't want to go back there. The "offer" to the day camp was turned down and it is slapping a lawsuit on the Valley Club:
"This has nothing to do with safety," attorney Gabriel Levin said. "It has to do with the color of their skin." Before a camp trip to a gymnastics event in Huntingdon Valley yesterday, several of the children who made the June 29 trip to Valley Club's pool expressed little desire to return.
"I don't want to go back," Creative Steps camper Jabriel Brown, 12, said yesterday. "I don't want to get treated the same."
Dymir Baylor, 14, who said he heard the racially oriented comments himself during the trip to Valley Club, was similarly inclined.
"I'm afraid if we go back, we'll get put in the same situation," Baylor said.
Plus, as Creative Steps founder and director Alethea Wright said "unless there's been some additional footage added to the pool, I don't see how we could return." Really. If the safety issue was the real concern (you know how that whole complexion thing is about numbers, right), what's changed to generate the invitation? No one's buying it. In order to accept an offer to return to the Valley Club, Creative Steps' attorney said the club's entire board must resign, and the bigots who hurled racist comments at the children need to be expelled from the club.
Uh oh, the purity of the pool is now under the federal microscope. Too bad, so sad for the members and board of The Valley Club as Senator Arlen Specter drops the hammer. (CBS3):
It looks like a Montgomery County swim club accused of racial discrimination will be investigated by federal officials.
Friday evening, Sen. Arlen Specter sent a letter asking the Department of Justice to investigate the allegations surrounding the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pa.
"If these allegations are true, then there appears to be a violation of Title II of the Civil Right Act of 1964," Specter wrote to Justice Officials. "I would appreciate it if you would review this matter, to determine what action, if any, is warranted by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice."
The latest reason for ejecting the children from the club by the president of the club, John Duesler, is that all of the little black children couldn't swim. Does he know this for a fact? (it's not much improvement on the "complexion" remarkm btw). He said "They turned our club from a safe swim club into an unsafe swim club because of the sheer number of children in our shallow section who are basically unable to swim." Of course it was hard to explain this reaction of parents who are members of VSC to these kids:
"A couple of the children ran down saying, 'Miss Wright, Miss Wright, they're up there saying, 'What are those black kids doing here?"'
Wright said she went to talk to a group of members at the top of the hill and heard one woman say she would see to it that the group, made of up of children in kindergarten through seventh grade, did not return.
"Some of the members began pulling their children out of the pool and were standing around with their arms folded," Wright said. "Only three members left their children in the pool with us."
I'll grant Dr. Duesler a pass on principle for the moment -- and it's a very generous grant -- perhaps he personally doesn't have a racist bone in his body. He apologized, but clearly believes it's all just a misunderstanding. This is post-racial America after all, it's just a terrible mistake. But does he feel any responsibility to acknowledge racist comments made by club members witnessed by multiple people? Clearly The Valley Club has members that do, in fact, want the club to be free of people of color (or perhaps, to be generous, have a few token members -- a small enough number to remain "comfortable" and keep the "contamination" factor acceptable -- to fend off claims of outright racism)
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that the "mistake" here by the swim club is that its policies opened it to federal scrutiny because it leased out its facilities to non-members, thus making public accommodation laws apply to it. You best believe that other private clubs around the country that have their own unwritten policies about keeping environs snow white are running for cover and rethinking whether to rent out their facilities and get caught by the short ones.
After the treatment the kids attending Creative Steps Day Camp received from The Valley Swim Club, a private school has welcomed the children to swim in its pool. (NBC):
[T]he staff at Girard College, a private Philadelphia boarding school for children who live in low-income and single parent homes, stepped in and offered their pool.
"We had to help," said Girard College director of Admissions Tamara Leclair. "Every child deserves an incredible summer camp experience."
The school already serves 500 campers of its own, but felt they could squeeze in 65 more - especially since the pool is vacant on the day the Creative Steps had originally planned to swim at Valley Swim Club.
"I'm so excited," camp director Alethea Wright exclaimed. There are still a few logistical nuisances -- like insurance -- the organizations have to work out, but it seems the campers will not stay dry for long.
And to sweeten the deal, the owners of Gumdrops & Sprinkles treated the kids to a free day of candy and ice cream making.
To think that The Valley Swim Club took the $1900 from Creative Steps Day Camp yet were so appalled when they actually deigned to show and they were -- gasp -- Negroes -- that they gave the money back indicates they didn't think the money wasn't green enough to accept the "contamination" of the pool. I can't think of more publicly inhumane behavior toward children in recent memory. It's such a stain on his state that Arlen Specter is looking into this social (and PR) catastrophe.
I have a couple of questions, though. Let's say that the state, and Specter talk to the club's owners and the PR nightmare continues for The Valley Swim Club. The club has a couple of choices, and none are good (not that I feel sorry for these bigots). Lift their racist ban on POC, or claim right of assembly as a private club (that cannot possibly fly if they take money from non-members to access the facility -- that's public accommodation). So then they have to clean up their public relations mess by admitting minorities.
Do you think that members of the club will cancel their memberships in droves over this? I could see this happening because they were so casual in expressing their bigotry out in the open; certainly they will rebel against any notion that they have to socialize with human beings they see as "pickaninnies," right
Take a look at some of the comments found at the article below the fold.
Welcome to post-racial America, where people have their heads in the sand about the state of race relations in this country because a black man was elected POTUS.
The staff at the Valley Swim Club in NE Philly must have stepped into the DeLorean and took a spin back into the days of segregation, as 60 kids were turned away from the pool there and apparently the people at the Swim Club didn't mind their inner bigot surface for all to see. (NBC Philly):
"I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor.
The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.
"When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool," Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. "The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately."
..."There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club," John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement.
Excuse me, what year is this? Am I watching a rerun of a scene in Far From Heaven (2002)? There was a scene in the Todd Haynes film, set in the 1950s, where a black boy, the son of service worker at a Miami hotel, dares to step into the hotel pool. His father rushes and pulls him out, but it's too late -- the white people in the pool race to get out of the "contaminated" water. Apparently that's the kind of "change they can believe in" at The Valley Swim Club.
Contact information for the club is here. This is so outrageous that I'm almost unable to type.
I don't see anything on the membership app asking about race, so when do they determine you can't join -- when you show up? Check out the club's rules of operations below the fold.
The latest reason for ejecting the children from the club by the president of the club, John Duesler, is that all of the little black children couldn't swim. Does he know this for a fact? (it's not much improvement on the "complexion" remarkm btw). He said "They turned our club from a safe swim club into an unsafe swim club because of the sheer number of children in our shallow section who are basically unable to swim." Of course it was hard to explain this reaction of parents who are members of VSC to these kids:
