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.
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The Evesham School District of Marlton, New Jersey, eliminated a diversity film from its curriculum in early February after some parents protested its inclusion of same-sex families. (Here's my original post on the matter, and a follow up, plus an excursus on same-sex families in the classroom.)
The district has now formed a committee of nine PTA parents and a group of teachers that will make a recommendation about the film. According to the Courier-Post, seven schools each provided a volunteer from their PTA executive board, and two schools held random drawings of dues-paying PTA members. The teachers are mostly health and media specialists. The committee could recommend keeping the video as is, moving it to another grade, or removing it from the curriculum.
I hope this is enough to provide a fair review. It's unclear how the volunteers were chosen or if they were screened for neutrality. If they weren't, there's no indication the overall committee was reviewed to make sure it included a variety of views. The school district's official announcement of the committee simply states:
A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit of two couples in Lexington, Massachusetts, who claimed the local public school district violated their constitutional rights by teaching their children about families headed by same-sex parents.
Public schools are entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy. Diversity is a hallmark of our nation. It is increasingly evident that diversity includes differences in sexual orientation.
He noted the couples could always homeschool or send their children to private school, or ask the school to excuse their children when same-sex families are discussed in the classroom. They have no right, however, to dictate what the school district teaches.
This is a sound ruling that focuses on our country's historical values and current realities. I'll just add, as I've said before, that while it's their prerogative if parents want their children excused from planned discussions of diversity and same-sex families, they're not going to be able to zoom in and yank their children away every time my son mentions that he went to the park with his moms or brings in photos of our wedding for show and tell. It's going to be harder and harder to compartmentalize discussion of same-sex families into neat, optional units of the curriculum. We're not an abstraction; we're part of the larger community, and our children are learning next to everyone else's.
(This is why we as a community cannot play "nice" and wait for bones to be thrown at us now and again by the Democrats who want our money but don't put OUR money where THEIR mouth is at the end of the day. So, civil unions are fine - but same sex couples don't "exist" as far as public school curricula is concerned. - promoted by The Educated Eclectic)
The Evesham School District of Marlton, New Jersey, under fire over a diversity-education film depicting same-sex families, has bowed to pressure and decided to eliminate the film from its curriculum. (See my original diary on the matter.)
Garden State Equality is asking everyone who can to join them and many other allies at the Evesham School Board meeting this Tuesday, February 13th at 8:00 pm at the DeMasi Middle School, 199 Evesboro-Medford Road in Marlton. They report:
