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.
it's no surprise that the 2009 Values Voter Summit, launching on Friday, sponsored by the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, Focus on the Family and a host of other professional anti-gay, misogynist, forced birth advocates, will entertain the attendees with a screening of Speechless: Silencing the Christians.
This is the flick that was peddled around the country in local markets to air and scare people about the Homosexual Agenda. Since watching a film about say, Obama's health care plan and why it's SOCIALISM; it's always good to go back to the old saw of hating on the gays to give the crowd a collective hard-on. (OnTopMag):
In the documentary, the AFA asserts that proposed federal hate crime legislation would outlaw religious speech, that employment protection laws force churches to hire gays and lesbians, that gay men and women are largely responsible for HIV/AIDS and all STDs, and that gay marriage hurts the family because it deprives children of a mother or a father.
In July, hundreds of gay activists protested outside the Florida offices of Tampa's WFLA Channel 8 after executives decided to broadcast the video. The rally was organized by several local gay rights groups including Equality Florida and Pride Tampa Bay, and the Metropolitan Community Church of Tampa, a gay-inclusive Christian denomination. The groups' pleas to not air the special had fallen on deaf ears.
But in other markets, gay activists were successful in derailing the film's release, including WOOD-TV 8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and WSXY 6.2 in Columbus, Ohio.
"There's a time and place to show such hateful trash, a gathering of bigoted homophobes is the only place," R. Zeke Fread, director of Pride Tampa Bay, told On Top Magazine in an email. "I'm sure Speechless will receive enthusiastic applause and a standing ovation [at Value Voters Summit]."
On Saturday, FOTF will have a conference session on "countering the "homosexual agenda" in public schools" and another on how marriage equality will destroy religious liberty.
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I wondered what the turnout would be for the dozens of invited "special guests" in the wingnut, bible beating world at this year's gathering. Stephen Baldwin will be there, btw. And you know 2012 presidential Clown Car peeps showed up -- Huckabee and Mitt, but no Bible Spice. Tony Perkins didn't forget to close the deal on his black pulpit puppets -- Bishop Harry Jackson and Ken Hutcherson -- plus Star Parker.
See who is attending (and who turned them down), below the fold.
It must be Arizona's week in the spotlight for wingers, crazies, and fundies. Poor failed presidential candidate Sen. John McCain had the gall to suggest to heat-packing Arizonans that President Obama doesn't want to torch the Constitution (not like, say, George W. Bush, who already set it ablaze).
And these clips are fun. On the left, McCain is asked why Republicans never reformed health care when they were in power; on the right McCain's not happy being grilled about health reform that does not fit his script.
Wingnut radio host and supremely anti-gay and offensive Clown Hall columnist Kevin McCullough inadvertently gives a comical interview to Daddy-D's "news organ" CitizenLink. Perhaps the most revealing moment is a portrayal of actor and fundie Stephen Baldwin's immersion into Christian radio, something McCullough takes credit for:
I think everyone's going to want to know how you got Stephen Baldwin involved in all this!
I had moved to New York in 2003 to do a show there. And Stephen's wife, the lovely Mrs. Baldwin, was listening. She listens to Christian radio all the time. And she had my show on and she's using the butcher knife and she's chopping the vegetables for the dinner that night and she's talking out loud to no one in the kitchen. She's like, "That's right, you tell 'em!" "That's what I'm sayin'!" Stephen comes down and he's like, "Sweetie, who are you talking to?" And she's got this butcher knife in her hands and she wheels around and points the butcher knife at him and says, "You need to be more like that guy!" Stephen started listening and he's always been a junkie of talk radio. And so he called in and funny enough, I didn't know who he was! But he, for no explainable reason, befriended me and out of that friendship grew a real, simultaneous passion to reach the fifteen to thirty-four generation.
The interview also covers McCullough's unsurprising but tired opposition to health care reform by referring to the plan as 'Gestapo-care':
If you historically understand that the Gestapo was the part of the SS who were basically empowered to report on their neighbors, to be the nannies of everyone else around them, that's what the White House asked us to do on its blog when it said, 'if you receive emails, if you are seeing web sites or if you're having casual conversations in which people are spreading "disinformation." And given what this administration seems to already have the penchant to do, and that is interpret things to their advantage at all times, if you just have a different opinion about it or draw a different statistical conclusion that doesn't square with their numbers, I could be considered to be someone spreading disinformation. As I told Cavuto on Fox News, the executive branch of government has no business monitoring my own private discussions about health care. So, on that level alone, I think that it is a Gestapo-like tactic that they were trying to very subtly encourage.
WTF? Isn't it interesting that people like McCullough (and his listeners), always seem to want government out of our private lives but they are the first to scream and protest for federal and state control over whether LGBTs can be fired for being out, or whether same-sex couples can marry.
More below the fold -- how this kind of garbage stokes the know-nothing/birther/health care town hall nutcases.
If you are in the St. Louis, MO area on September 25-26, you can stop by the St. Louis Frontenac Hilton and join some luminaries of the far-right fundamentalist conservative agenda at "How to Take Back America." Take a look at the "co-chairmen" and host committee; with Phyllis Schlafly and Janet Folger Porter helming this motherlode of bible-based, flat-earth, non-reality-based thinking, it is surely going to produce entertainment of the highest order.
That said, this is planned as a wound-licking session for a movement rejected in the last election cycle, so now it is in regroup and heal mode.
The organizers of this conferece are asking folks to let them know which workshops they are most interested in. Taking a look at the prospects, below (and you can surf over to vote!), one can observe that: 1) a good number of these fundies and wingnuts haven't a clue about the Internets, and 2) the level of paranoia and fear of education, women and homos hasn't died down one iota.
Becoming a more effective activist
How conservative activists can use media techniques
How to use the media to take back America
How to lobby Legislators
How to make a three minute speech
How to recruit candidates and run for office
How to “Market”, “Frame”, and “spin” your issue
Building a grassroots movement
How to build a grassroots movement
How to organize your precinct, a meeting, a House Meeting and a rally
How to make your state political convention a grassroots event
How to run a grassroots campaign
How to activate people in your church
Constitutional issues
How to defeat a Con Con and a National Popular Vote
How to keep ERA permanently dead
How to deal with the supremacist judiciary
Economic Issues
How to stop entry of illegal drugs and people
How to stop what isn’t free in free trade
How to keep global warming from leading to global government
How to stop spending that causes trillions of $ of debt
Education Issues
How to protect parents rights against UN treaties
How to protect parents rights against “village” advocates, schools, and family courts
How to teach criticisms of evolution
How and why to encourage homeschooling
Foreign Policy Issues
How to defend America vs. missile attack
How to defeat attacks on sovereignty by UN treaties
Social Issues
How to defend traditional marriage and DOMA
How to pass effective pro-life bills and avoid pro-life defeats
How to defend against gay attacks on marriage and religious speech
How to stop feminist and gay attacks on the military
Using 21st Century technology
How to use the Internet effectively: Internet 101
How to organize your community on the Internet
How to promote conservatism online
Also, the “How to Take Back America” conference has just announced a very special speaker:
Rep. Michele Bachmann will be our luncheon speaker on Saturday, Sept. 26. Rep. Bachmann is one of the few courageous conservative leaders of our day. From fighting wasteful spending to exposing ACORN, Rep. Bachmann is a tireless in her efforts to protect our freedoms.
Just about every insane right-wing conspiracy theory currently in circulation has been embraced by one or more of the organizers of this event, all of whom have actively worked to spread the fear that Obama and the Democrats are out to destroy Christianity and turn America into a socialist hellhole.
And Mike Huckabee, instead of trying to distance himself from the lunacy of his former supporters, openly and willingly continues to associate with them.
"This Bible is designed for the decent, hardworking core of America, the ordinary man or woman who loves this nation and believes it springs from godly roots," says Richard G. Lee, a Southern Baptist pastor from Georgia who served as the Bible's general editor.
What is it with these wingnuts? They are so upset that the lost the election that all they can do is fixate on BS that makes them look even more insane. Naturally, WingNutDaily was all over this one.
A Virginia congressman, very quietly, has signed onto a measure in Congress that would require presidential candidates to verify their eligibility to hold the highest elected office in the United States.
WND earlier reported when freshman Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., filed H.R. 1503, an amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.
According to the Library of Congress' bill-tracking website, H.R. 1503 would "require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of president to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution."
Now, Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte has signed on as a co-sponsor, putting a notice on his website that it's one of the efforts in which he's joining. "Another man with a spine - there are at least two up there on the Hill," wrote a WND reader who has followed the Posey plan.
Also predictably, the right-wing, bible-beating "news" site takes the opportunity in its "reporting," to shill for its related conspiracy theory publications:
There are such naked lies at the end of this Focus on Your Family piece on an upcoming rally in DC, that I expected "host" Nima to be struck down by a bolt of lightning. He talks to a Derek McCoy, who is organizing a Stand 4 Marriage event in DC on Tuesday. They are clearly trying to bring together a "rainbow coalition" of bigotry.
Marriage advocates will gather in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday for the Stand 4 Marriage Rally, weeks after the D.C. City Council voted unanimously in favor of an ordinance recognizing same-sex "marriages" from other states.
The legislation faces a final vote in May, as well as congressional review. In addition, a bill to legalize same-sex "marriage" in the District could be introduced soon.
"We've got to really rally together," event coordinator Derek McCoy said. "You're not just talking one ethnic group. Everybody has to come together and really work on this issue collectively."
The rally runs from 10 a.m. to noon EDT at the Freedom Plaza, which is across the street from the Wilson Building.
"We're calling on all clergy, all concerned citizens, people from around the region and in the area to come to D.C. to make your voice known," McCoy said.
I'm telling you, who's going to call out these homophobes of color? At the end Reza spews his junk science lies: "Same sex marriage will inevitably prove harmful to children. That's because kids do better emotionally, relationally, and even financially when they are raised in a home with their biological mom and dad."
OK, let's grant that this BS is true -- is he saying that non-bio opposite-sex couples would be inferior parents? What about a single mom or dad? Or what about grandparents who raise children? We've seen over and over that there are plenty of heterosexual parents who have no business raising children.
I was wondering when the folks at WingNutDaily would update its "Mr. President!" forum to take questions from its readers to pass on to Barack Obama.
Ever have a great question to ask the president or his spokesmen? Ever been frustrated watching White House press conferences because reporters don't ask the right questions? Now's your chance to participate. Post your tough questions for the White House at the MR. PRESIDENT! forum where they will be reviewed by WND editors and our White House correspondent. Who knows? Your question may be asked at the next White House press briefing.
Some of the questions that they posed to Bush were batsh*t crazy, either focusing on The Brown Menace streaming across the border, or his alleged support for TEH NEW WORLD ORDER!!
As you might imagine, there are quite a few missives on the "Obama isn't a citizen!" conspiracy. The fun begins below the fold.
Check out this old-school propaganda being shoveled at voters by The National Republican Trust PAC to try to save retrograde Saxby Chambliss in the runoff bid in December - "Obama: Just One Vote Away in Ga. from Total Control."
General election flashback! The National Republican Trust PAC -- the conservative group that sank real money into a national ad campaign hitting Obama over Reverend Wright -- has just launched a new ad in the Georgia Senate race attacking Obama as a dangerous "radical" who is on the verge of "total control."
"Barack Obama's just one Senate vote away from total control," the ad says, attacking Obama by claiming he'll pay to give illegal aliens citizenship with "crushing new taxes." (Actually, Dems are two votes away from the magic number of 60 in the Senate, but who's counting?)
The ad -- a sign of the conservatism of Georgia's electorate if there ever was one -- also assails Obama over his "spread the wealth" comment and claims that a vote for Dem Jim Martin is a vote for "Obama's radical agenda." It implores that voters "stop Barack Obama."
Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He needs to understand that as President, his words will be scrutinized and will have impact whether he intends it or not. In this regard, President Bush is an excellent model; Obama should take a lesson from his example. Bush never gets sloppy when he is speaking publicly.
He chooses his words with care and precision, which is why his style sometimes seems halting. In the eight years he has been President, it is remarkable how few gaffes or verbal blunders he has committed. If Obama doesn't raise his standards, he will exceed Bush's total before he is inaugurated.
Wishful thinking for wingnuts -- in their desperation to remain relevant, they are trying to spin that Barack Obama must govern from the center-right...or else. Or else what? You all are irrelevant.
HARRIS: How will we -- "we," big "we" -- make this work? I'm talking Republicans, Democrats, independents, Libertarians. Republicans -- do Republicans want to work with a President-elect Obama?
BUCHANAN: Well, it all depends on which direction the country -- Obama wants to take the country. If he is really going to govern from the center and recognizes that the nation is center to right, then we're gonna work with him, just as we worked with Bill Clinton to get welfare reform.
But when Bill Clinton wanted to nationalize health care, we fought him tooth and nail. And we won, because the American people were on our side at the time. So, that's what I think is going to be the formula for the next couple of years.
HARRIS: Hey, Bay, you mentioned center-right. You still believe the country is center-right? I'm looking at Indiana. I'm looking at how close things were in Missouri. I'm looking at Virginia. I'm look -- do you still believe it's center-right? Couldn't it just be center, whatever that is, just center?
In the end, it's likely that Obama will govern more to the center than to the left, and will piss a lot of progressives off. But to think he has to move to the right is preposterous. The right never questioned George Bush's "mandate" with his -- by a hair -- stolen elections.
If we're going to interpret anything about this election, it is that the results were the repudiation of anything the Republicans and GWB touched and destroyed during their reign of terror.
Here we go, people. The marriage amendment wins for the bible-beaters in 2008 has convinced the dim bulb wingnuts in the Republican party that the way to remake its tattered image is to focus on social conservatism -- womb control and same-sex marriage.
The Republican brand is still alive and well, Rep. Mike Pence said on Fox News Sunday.
When asked by Chris Wallace what "conservative solutions" the GOP would bring to their current minority-party status, Pence said social issues like "the sanctity of marriage" will remain the backbone of the Republican platform.
"You build those conservative solutions, Chris, on the same time-honored principles of limited government, a belief in free markets, in the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage," Pence said.
The Indiana representative cited the ballot measures against gay marriage that passed on Election Day as evidence of the continuing presence of conservative values.
"There were three state referendums on marriage ... all three carried. The vitality of the conservative movement around the country is very real," said Pence.
I hate to break it to them, but this defeat is not going to stop progress on the LGBT rights front, they are on the wrong side of history. We will emerge from this debacle re-energized to fight religion being used to remove the civil rights of gay and lesbian couples. We do, however, need to do a post-mortem on what can avoid repeating mistakes that made it possible for these amendments to pass.
Speaking of the whole amendment debacle, those of you in Massachusetts who think they are immune to an attack, the fundies are training their scopes on you. Read below the fold.
Actually it's a clown bus, not a clown car. The remaining staunch support of John McCain lies in the Base -- the hard case bible beaters, the Freeper set, the low, low, low info voter, and those simply scared of change. Jonathan Stein over at Mother Jones attended a stop on the Our Country Deserves Better PAC's "Stop Obama" tour.
You know all those ridiculous wingnut screams of "socialist," "Muslim," etc.? Well this event at the National Press Club was a cornucopia of batsh*ttery. They have strong Kool-Aid on the tour bus. Look at some of the current conspiracy theories about Barack Obama. They are below the fold.
Which is worse? Being pro-Islam or pro-sadomasochism? Well Mattel -- the maker of Barbie and Hot Wheels -- is being indirectly accused of being pro-Islamic by OneNewsNow and Olive Tree Ministries, and being accused of being by the Concerned Women For America (CWA) of foisting exploitation of women with the new the Black Canary Barbie -- "otherwise known as 'Dominatrix Barbie.'"
Some concerned parents have contacted the Mattel toy company with allegations that one of its dolls utters words which promote Islam.
The Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo dolls are manufactured by Fisher-Price, which is part of the Mattel toy empire. However, a number of parents contacted the company when they heard the doll say these words: "Islam is the light."
While the doll appears to utter "Islam is the light," the company denies that is actually what it is programmed to say. Mattel insists that Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo features realistic baby sounds, including cooing, giggling, and baby babble, with no real sentence structure. The toy company claims the only scripted word the doll says is "mama."
Mattel also contends that because the original sound track is compressed into a file that can be played through an inexpensive toy speaker, actual sounds may be imprecise or distorted. Jan Markell, founder and director of Olive Tree Ministries, is skeptical about Mattel's explanation.
...I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, "Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, "He's a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists." This is not the way we should be doing it in America.
"Dominatrix Barbie"...Wow. I have a crazy idea: Maybe Mattel might be cross-marketing a Barbie product for Barbie collectors and comic book collectors -- and the primary markets for this product aren't kids at all.
But seriously -- which is it? Is Mattel a pro-Islamic toy company -- or are they a pro-dominatrix/pro-sadomasochism toy company? It seems like it's hard to be both at the same time -- the two things would seem to be mutually exclusive. And I seriously doubt Mattel wants to destroy America -- they sell a lot of products here.
Hey -- I have another crazy, crazy idea: Maybe Mattel is just a toy company trying to sell products to make a profit for their shareholders, and they don't have a pro-Islamic or pro-dominatrix/pro-sadomasochistic slant at all!
And just one more crazy, crazy thought: Maybe OneNewsNow, Olive Tree Ministries, and the Concerned Women for America are the ones having crazy thoughts about Mattel that don't have any foothold in reality! Like I said, it's just a crazy, crazy thought. :P
Poor Tony Perkins. He was on the speed dial of the GOP's movers and shakers and the powers that be just dumped on two of his fast friends, Reps. Michele Bachmann and Marilyn Musgrave. Both have had their support rolled back by the Republican Party because, well, they are now considered an embarrassment to the party.
The Family Research Council's (FRC) political arm ripped Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) Thursday for withdrawing ad spending on behalf of two endangered Republican candidates.
FRC President Tony Perkins said in a letter to Cole, chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC), that the committee "is abandoning social conservative candidates" by pulling ads from the reelection races of Reps. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.) and Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.).
Bachmann has come under fire recently for stating -- then denying -- her concern that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and other members of Congress hold "anti-American" views.
Musgrave is considered to be a reliable champion of socially conservative causes and one of the most outspoken members on the issue of gay marriage. The Colorado congresswoman is in an uphill battle to retain her seat against Democrat Betsy Markey.
And as The Coloradan notes, the support was substantial.
The Family Research Council Action Political Action Committee is protesting the National Republican Congressional Committee's decision Wednesday to cancel $400,000 of advertising it had planned over the last week of Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's re-election campaign.
Check out Tony Perkins' missive to the NRCC below the fold.
I received this email the other day and I thought it presented a great opportunity for discussion. I know a lot of you out there have parents with less-than-progressive views on a whole host of issues. This reader, wbpc, has a dilemma that he would like your wisdom on:
I have been an avid reader of your blog since February of this year, an am a huge fan (I was the giddy fanboy that made you pose for photos at the Jim Neal gathering on Primary Day). I am writing to you because I need your help!
My dad has been a right-wing conservative minister my entire life, and has always followed politics. It is only in the last couple of years that I have become more vocal about my personal beliefs, but even now I don't often challenge him because it is like talking to a brick wall. Well, I got home from work today to find a message from my father in my inbox...
Nathan Johnson, 32, and 28-year-old Tharin Gartrell. Good lord, look at these domestic terrorists. Does this mean we can now start the random profiling because of the bad blond dye job and possible inbreeding?
We certainly didn't hear anything about a plot while we were around, but the heinous lines going into the Pepsi Center this afternoon may have meant they ratcheted up the security even tighter.
According to multiple sources, Aurora police made a routine traffic stop Sunday morning at 2:38 a.m. and arrested 28-year-old Tharin Gartrell. Sources say he was driving a rented pickup truck. The Secret Service says two rifles were found in his truck along with methamphetamine. Another law enforcement source says he was told at least one of the rifles was a "sniper rifle."
A second source told CBS4 Investigator Brian Maass authorities told officers they are concerned they may have come upon a possible "assassination plot."
Authorities are downplaying the seriousness of the threat and seem to be giving these losers a pass; look at this:
The U.S. Attorney for Colorado said authorities are "absolutely confident" three men arrested on weapons and drug charges posed no threat to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
CBS4 had reported one of the suspects told authorities that they were "going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a ... rifle ... sighted at 750 yards."
Law-enforcement sources told CBS4 that one of the suspects "was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama. He responded in the affirmative."
(UPDATE: The loyal bible beaters over at Don Wildmon's OneNewsNow wig out. See the comments below the fold.)
Shall we take out the tiny violin for the supporters of the California marriage amendment? As Orion45's diary pointed out, the wording of Prop 8, as rewritten for the ballot by Attorney General Jerry Brown clarifies the intent of the measure:
Proposition 8
ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY.
INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Changes California Constitution to eliminate right of same-sex couples to marry. Provides that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
Fiscal Impact: Over the next few years, potential revenue loss, mainly sales taxes, totaling in the several tens of millions of dollars, to state and local governments. In the long run, likely little fiscal impact to state and local governments.
Although the changes to the proposed amendment are subject to legal challenge, this summary accurately describes what the proposition will do. Prop. 8 would eliminate a constitutional right guaranteed to same-gender couples and would decrease revenues coming in to the state from marriages between same-gender couples.
So what, exactly, do these bigots object to? Isn't that the intent of the measure -- to limit the right to marry to heterosexual couples? The only way to do that is to ban same-sex couples from marrying.
Gay rights backers cheered Brown's decision, but Jennifer Kerns of the Protect Marriage coalition told the Los Angeles Times the revised wording is "inherently argumentative." Kerns said the wording had the potential to "prejudice voters against the initiative." "This is a complete about-face from the ballot title that was assigned" for the petition drive, she said.
...Political analysts on both sides suggest that the language change will make passage of the initiative more difficult, noting that voters might be more reluctant to pass a measure that makes clear it is taking away existing rights.
The rewording does not make the initiative inaccurate in any way. What Kerns is objecting to is the conservative frame being tossed out the window ("protecting marriage") for the blunt bigoted intent of the amendment. It so sucks to be called out for what you are, fundies, doesn't it?
In the colloquial spirit of saying someone is a sandwich short of a picnic to mean someone isn't reasoning quite clearly, WingNutDaily's Janet Folger is a toilet stall short of a public restroom in her piece Go ahead: Arrest me.
Before we get to what she states she soon plans on doing, we need to get a take on how she reads a section of Colorado's recently signed-by-the-Colorado-governor public accommodation law (SB 200). From the actual text of the law:
SECTION 8. 24-34-701, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
24-34-701. Publishing of discriminative matter forbidden. No person, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or employee of any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement, directly or indirectly, by himself or herself or through another person shall publish, issue, circulate, send, distribute, give away, or display in any way, manner, or shape or by any means or method, except as provided in this section, any communication, paper, poster, folder, manuscript, book, pamphlet, writing, print, letter, notice, or advertisement of any kind, nature, or description which THAT is intended or calculated to discriminate or actually discriminates against any disability, race, creed, color, sex, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status, national origin, or ancestry or against any of the members thereof in the matter of furnishing or neglecting or refusing to furnish to them or any one of them any lodging, housing, schooling, or tuition or any accommodation, right, privilege, advantage, or convenience offered to or enjoyed by the general public or which states that any of the accommodations, rights, privileges, advantages, or conveniences of any such place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement shall or will be refused, withheld from, or denied to any person or class of persons on account of disability, race, creed, color, sex, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status, national origin, or ancestry or that the patronage, custom, presence, frequenting, dwelling, staying, or lodging at such place by any person or class of persons belonging to or purporting to be of any particular disability, race, creed, color, sex, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status, national origin, or ancestry is unwelcome or objectionable or not acceptable, desired, or solicited.
How Folger quoted this same section of the new law in her recent article:
Section 8. 24-34-701. Publishing of discriminative matter forbidden. No person, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or employee of any place of public accommodation ... shall publish, issue, circulate, send, distribute, give away, or display in any way, manner, or shape or by any means or method, except as provided in this section, any communication, paper, poster, folder, manuscript, book, pamphlet, writing, print, letter, notice, or advertisement of any kind, nature, or description that is intended or calculated to discriminate or actually discriminates against ... SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status ... in the matter of furnishing or neglecting or refusing to furnish to them or any one of them any lodging, housing, schooling, or tuition or any accommodation, right [marriage], privilege [adoption] , advantage, or convenience ... on account of ... SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status ... [which] is unwelcome or objectionable or not acceptable, desired, or solicited.
I'm not an attorney, but it looks to me that the intent of the section of the law in question is to make it clear that the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or employee of any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement shouldn't attempt to violate or circumvent the intent of Colorado Revised Statute 24-34-301 with some sort of written product. (Y'all attorneys out there in Blenderville correct me if I've got this totally wrong, okay?) Janet Folder seems to have edited the code section to imply SB 200 states that if any written product disagrees with the homosexual agenda and is found within the state boundaries of Colorado, that's unlawful -- and that any person who publishes or possesses such material is in violation of state law.
And, she pretty much states that this is her interpretation of the statute in this article excerpt:
We track blogs, and track what the fundies write over at transgendernews. Scanning the web's blog engines, we found a post last February from a man named Charlie Ray -- someone who labeled himself and his blog Reasonable Christian. The blog entry was titled Christianity Today's, "The Transgender Moment," Misleads.
When a Christian takes on the name Reasonable Christian, and writes in the About Me section of his blog...
I'm interested in systematic theology and in philosophy, especially the Christian discipline of apologetics.
...I expect the author of the blog would engage in reasonable discussions in his blogs comment section, in line with Isaiah 1:17,18a:
Learn to do right! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord.
More than one wrote comments to the blog entry asking for the scriptural basis for his beliefs, to which he answered:
[After the fold, Charlie doesn't post opinions that differ from his -- Reasonable Christian doesn't actually do any reasoning with folks who disagree with him.]
it's no surprise that the 2009 Values Voter Summit, launching on Friday, sponsored by the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, Focus on the Family and a host of other professional anti-gay, misogynist, forced birth advocates, will entertain the attendees with a screening of Speechless: Silencing the Christians.
I wondered what the turnout would be for the dozens of invited "special guests" in the wingnut, bible beating world at this year's gathering. Stephen Baldwin will be there, btw. And you know 2012 presidential Clown Car peeps showed up -- Huckabee and Mitt, but no Bible Spice. Tony Perkins didn't forget to close the deal on his black pulpit puppets -- Bishop Harry Jackson and Ken Hutcherson -- plus Star Parker.
If you are in the St. Louis, MO area on September 25-26, you can stop by the St. Louis Frontenac Hilton and join some luminaries of the far-right fundamentalist conservative agenda at "
Poor Tony Perkins. He was on the speed dial of the GOP's movers and shakers and the powers that be just dumped on two of his fast friends, Reps. Michele Bachmann and Marilyn Musgrave. Both have had their support rolled back by the Republican Party because, well, they are now considered an embarrassment to the party. 
I received this email the other day and I thought it presented a great opportunity for discussion. I know a lot of you out there have parents with less-than-progressive views on a whole host of issues. This reader, wbpc, has a dilemma that he would like your wisdom on:
Nathan Johnson, 32, and 28-year-old Tharin Gartrell. Good lord, look at these domestic terrorists. Does this mean we can now start the random profiling because of the bad blond dye job and possible inbreeding?
