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.
Okay. It sure looks like the Fort Worth, Texas Mayor Mike Moncrief made an apology for the Rainbow Lounge incident in this video (and reported in this article), but apparently looks apparently can be deceiving. The Mayor said the following in response to a specific question in a city council meeting regarding the Rainbow Lounge incident:
"The mayor and council are always sorry if anyone is hurt ever in our city," Begley said Wednesday. "The mayor has asked for a thorough investigation of what happened in the Rainbow Lounge to the point that he's asked for the U.S. attorney to get involved ...They want to make sure that all voices are heard ... but the apology is that anyone is ever hurt in any incident."
Well, with that clarification, whether an actual apology was issued is so much more...well, unclear.
Engh, it's politics. Apparently no politician ever really apologizes, even when it appears clear that he or she is actually apologizing.
The Stonewall weekend police raid at Fort Worth's Rainbow Lounge, which resulted in a man, Chad Gibson, receiving a brain injury from the brutality exacted by "law enforcement" has turned into a perfect example of homophobia as a defense. The police chief, Jeff Halstead, has not only bought into the officer's questionable reasons for the violence -- allegations that a bar patron fondled them or made sexual gestures at them, something witnesses deny strongly, but he's proud to release a statement like this:
Monday, police chief Jeff Halstead said the officers' actions are being investigated. However, he also said that officers that entered the bar during the scheduled inspection were touched inappropriately.
"You're touched and advanced in certain ways by people inside the bar, that's offensive," he said. "I'm happy with the restraint used when they were contacted like that."
News 8 talked with council member Joel Burns shortly after he visited Gibson in the hospital Monday afternoon.
"It's my hope that the fact that this is a gay bar and the violence that happened there are not in any way tied - obviously as someone who loves Fort Worth [and] as someone who is gay - I don't want those two things to be connected," he said.
Neither the TABC nor Fort Worth police revealed why the bar was selected for what police called a bar check. But, Halstead said the checks always result from either citizen or law enforcement concerns. The bar's owner questioned that and pointed out the Rainbow Lounge has been open for less than two weeks.
Meanwhile, Gibson is suffering from brain injury.
Gibson's mother, Kelly Carter, called it heartbreaking."He's got bruises here on his head," Carter said. "He's got [them] all down his shoulder. He's got a ring around his wrist where they had tied him."
Allow me to translate the chief's comments: "Them faggots in that thar bar touched mah officers and now they're complainin' about some rough stuff and one little ol' faggot with a brain injury? Those perverts should be grateful they're alive."
This is a classic example of the Gay Panic Defense. In the very recent past all a straight man who brutally murdered a gay man had to say was, "He made a pass at me!", and the jury would ignore the evidence and let the murderer off. The Gay Panic Defense doesn't fly in many courts of law these days but it still has currency in the court of public opinion. And the chief of police in Forth Worth, a major U.S. city, is attempting to use the Gay Panic Defense to convince the citizens of Fort Worth to ignore the evidence-to ignore photographic evidence and credible eyewitness accounts-and let his officers off.
Police say seven people were arrested for public intoxication and at least a dozen more were restrained. The incident was captured on camera and posted on local blogs. The scene was topic of conversation at Sunday's Million Gay March in Dallas, and the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas released a statement following its Sunday morning worship services.
"After more than a generation of progress, this action shows that there is still much work to be done to ensure that all Americans enjoy 'equal protection under the law.' It is tragic that lesbian and gay taxpayers are still abused by the very people who are paid by our taxes."
..."I've worked in gay bars in four different counties in Texas, I've never seen anything this aggressive," club bouncer Justin McCarty said.
Fort Worth police arrested seven people for reported public intoxication, and for reportedly inappropriately groping an officer. It's an allegation witness Chuck Potter disputes.
"I can guarantee there wasn't a man in this bar that would've touched one of those officers, knowing they were arresting people."
Check out this bold letter to the editor from a die hard homophobe -- the writer is miffed at the idea that people would stay away from the island nation because of its hostility toward gay citizens.
It fully angers me to hear that this group of foreigners think they can dictate the policy and laws of another sovereign nation because they trade products and services with them. It was selfish, shortsighted thinking like this that led to Haiti being in the state it currently is.
I always thought that the laws of a nation were dictated by what that society decided was right and wrong and that we were in a world where, if my countries laws and polices were not the same as yours, we could agree to disagree.
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett apparently doesn't give a damn about his countrymen and women either. Read below the fold.
The GenQ Street Angels want volunteers with policing, military, security or medical experience to join.
They could be patrolling in Sydney's Oxford Street precinct and the King Street strip in Newtown as early as the first weekend in November.
Recent polls in gay and lesbian newspaper The Star Observer revealed about 70 per cent of readers believed Oxford Street was unsafe. Fewer than 35 per cent thought increased police patrols were enough to remedy the situation and almost 60 per cent said they were in favour of community security patrols.
Most trouble seemed to happen outside clubs that allowed queueing patrons to cluster on the footpath, Mr Stopps said. "This is where abuse and violence starts," he said.
The murder in Crothersville, Indiana is gruesome. The circumstances are a bit different depending on the article you read, but the common denominator is that homophobia unleashed unbelievable violent behavior in a group of men -- and one of them, 35-year-old Aaron Hall, ended up dead. (WAVE3):
Three people are charged in connection with Hall's brutal beating death: 19-year-old Garrett Gray and 18-year-old Coleman king face murder charges; 21-year-old Robert James ("Jamie") Hendricks has been charged with assisting a criminal.
At first, police didn't know the motive for the crime, but now Jackson County Sheriff's Detective Robert Henley says the suspects have told police that the victim, Aaron Hall, made an obscene motion and homosexual suggestion to King.
At that point, King allegedly "went crazy on Hall," beating him with his fists.
Investigators say Gray joined in, and both men beat Hall with their fists; and at one point detectives say King even removed his boot and used that to hit Hall. The beating allegedly continued for several hours, though court documents say the men paused to photograph themselves with their arms around Hall's beaten body.
According to the affidavit filed by prosecutors, King and Gray, along with the third suspect, Hendricks, then dragged Hall out of the house by his feet, with his head hitting the stairs, and dumped him in a ditch.
The bottom line is that someone is dead because of pathological group think with a goal of "masculinity enforcement," and fueled by alcohol, testosterone and homophobia by all of them. It's sick.
Bil Browning of Bilerico is yet another blogger being threatened for speaking out against the homophobes who would deny us civil rights. Last week he covered a protest at the Indiana Statehouse in opposition to SJR-7, Indiana's proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. What was the fallout?
The day after the rally, my phone rang off the hook with folks calling to support me after the brouhaha. However, what is disturbing (since my cell phone number isn't published!) is how many phone calls I got from people telling me I was going to burn in hell, I was a sinner, I should be run out of town, etc.
...For example, the window on my car was busted out last night. It was parked on the street since it's the old car that we don't use as much. The car was obviously searched, but nothing was taken-not even the spare change. Footsteps in the snow lead directly up to our car and then back away. No other car on the street was touched-and ours is the ugliest, oldest car parked on the block. The police don't think robbery was the motive, obviously, but instead have asked who we've pissed off lately.
All because he dared to take a public position on a civil rights issue. Yes, these are the "Christians," the agents of intolerance who are desperately trying to hold onto their security blanket of bigotry, lashing out because they actually have no interest in love for their neighbor.
This behavior occurs because many fundies actually justify explain violence against gays and lesbians as God's wrath being visited upon them. It's about controlling the behavior of people who are different, who may or may not share their worldview, or else, dag nab it, "God" is going to work in his mysterious ways by inspiring someone to take a pipe to beat a 72-year-old gay man to death or beat up a gay man for wearing pink pants, for instance. The Christians I know don't think this way; how did we get to a place like this?
Instead of debating the issue, they choose to unleash terror campaigns to stop free speech. Do they see any irony in their behavior? Apparently not. Do they call for a stop to the violence? Don't expect any press releases coming from the "professional persecuted 'Christian'" set condemning acts like this. Shakes Sis:
Meanwhile, the epidemicofhatred against the LGBT community continues with another heinous week in which a 21-year-old woman was left severely injured after being attacked for identifying herself as a lesbian, and a 72-year-old man was left dead after being attacked for being presumed gay. And where is the national outrage? Where is the anger that people are being attacked and killed for being gay, that people are being threatened and having their property destroyed for protesting their state-sanctioned inequality? Where are our national leaders? Where are the Democrats, who are meant to champion equality and progress? Where are the Republicans, who are meant to champion keeping the government out of our personal lives? Where are all the religious people who supposedly hate the sin but love the sinner?
(Back when pastor Lonnie Latham was busted for offering sex to a male police officer, he said "I was set up. I was in the area pastoring to police," so it's not surprising he'd use a defense that would make the headlines again. Latham was forced to step down from his church at the time, and also resigned from the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma and the Southern Baptist Convention. See my earlier post here. - promoted by pam)
The Rev. Lonnie W. Latham had supported a resolution calling on gays and lesbians to reject their "sinful, destructive lifestyle" before his Jan. 3, 2006, arrest outside the Habana Inn in Oklahoma City.
Authorities say he asked the undercover policeman to come up to his hotel for oral sex.
His attorney, Mack Martin, filed a motion to have the misdemeanor lewdness charge thrown out, saying the Supreme Court ruled in the 2003 decision Lawrence v. Texas that it was not illegal for consenting adults to engage in private homosexual acts.
He has a point. Everyone agrees that there was no offer of payment, so this wasn't a prostitution bust. The activity, had it taken place, would have been within the confines of a hotel room, so there was no threat of public lewdness. Just two consenting adults having fun.
And anyway, I'm sure the Rev. wasn't really planning on getting a blow job -- he was going to counsel the undercover cop to give up his "sinful, destructive lifestyle". Yeah, that was it.
Members of Yale's popular choral group, The Baker's Dozen, were brutally attacked by a bunch of goons after leaving a New Year's Eve party in San Francisco, where where one of the partygoers unleashed "faggot" and "homo" at the victims just before he called in friends to jump them. (KGO-TV/ABC7):
The trouble started at midnight after The Baker's Dozen sang "The Star Spangled Banner." Witnesses say a few local young men didn't appreciate the attention the Yale students were getting, made fun of their conservative dress and began taunting them and making threats.
Leanna Dawydiak, Hosted Party: "They had something here special that these other fellas obviously didn't have and that irritated them."
Witnesses say 19-year-old Richard Aicardi was the most aggressive.
Sharyar Aziz: "'You're not welcome here,' he called a few members of the group, whether it was fag or homo, very, I would say, juvenile taunting."
Aicardi took out his cell phone and called in reinforcements.
Reno Rapagnani [the attorney who hosted the party]: "He said, 'I'm 20 deep, my boys are coming.'"
That's pretty clear cut, isn't it? Aicardi called his thug boyz to come bash a few heads in. The beatings then ensued outside the house as 5-7 assailants attacked members of the chorus. A nearby church's surveillance camera captured the vehicle carrying the attackers.
Take a look at this slideshow of pictures of the victims of the crime. Singer Sharyar Aziz was seriously injured, with his jaw broken in two places; he required reconstructive surgery, his jaws wired shut and two titanium plates placded in his face in order to recover.
The pictures in that slideshow are the result of the quick thinking by the hosts, who captured the injuries of The Bakers Dozen members as proof of the savagery. It's the work the SFPD should have done when the crime was reported, but they didn't. Members of the choral group also identified four of the attackers to the police, and they were briefly detained, but no one has been arrested more than a week after the incident, according to KGO-TV.
What's going on here, why the foot-dragging? Read after the flip -- it may explain it all...
The Stonewall weekend police raid at Fort Worth's Rainbow Lounge, which resulted in a man, Chad Gibson, receiving a brain injury from the brutality exacted by "law enforcement" has turned into a perfect example of homophobia as a defense. The police chief, Jeff Halstead, has not only bought into the officer's questionable reasons for the violence -- allegations that a bar patron fondled them or made sexual gestures at them, something witnesses deny strongly, but he's proud to release a statement like this:
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