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.
Before WhoSigned.org came on the scene, the public conversation around Referendum 71 was one of positive consideration of our families. WhoSigned.org has disastrously changed the focus to a negative one about fringe tactics. Since the debut of WhoSigned.org last week, I have identified over 45 news stories, editorials, letters to the editor and blog diaries about Ref 71. Not one of them focused on our families and the importance of protecting the Domestic Partnership Expansion Law of 2009, as they had done previously. Only one focused on the dubious activities of the Ref 71 proponents, which we know to be legion. WhoSigned.org has taken all attention from our two greatest assets: our loving families and a morally bankrupt Radical-Right fringe trying to strip us of equality under the law.
Petition fraud is a serious and ongoing problem in many states, and anti-equality forces have been known to use unethical or illegal methods of filling up their petitions. Methods range from the simple copying of names and addresses from phone books or other petitions, to bait & switch, where the signature gatherer misrepresents the intent of the referendum to a trusting voter.
In an effort to keep electoral politics transparent and honest, Washington's Secretary of State makes the names of people who sign referendum or initiative petitions part of the public record if the petition gets certified. Similarly, the Washington Public Disclosure Commission posts the names of donors to PACs, candidates and political campaigns.
Today Brian Murphy announced the formation of WhoSigned.org.
WhoSigned.org, a grassroots organization of Washington State residents, announced today that it would make the names of Referendum 71 petitioners looking to overturn the expanded domestic partnership law accessible online.
While Murphy's stated goal is to facilitate meaningful discussion between petition signers and those affected by the petition's goal, his online database will serendipitously perform a different service: providing voters with a simple means of determining whether they are victims of petition fraud. This is vital in a state where the Secretary of State only checks 3% of signatures for authenticity. Recently in Massachusetts, thousands of people, including a city councilor and a television sports director, had their names fraudulently placed on anti-equality petitions.
