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.
You think we have equality battles ahead of us? Nothing we're dealing with compares to this:
Aggravated homosexuality will be punished by death, according to a new bill tabled in Parliament yesterday. ...A person commits aggravated homosexuality when the victim is a person with disability or below the age of 18, or when the offender is HIV-positive. The bill thus equates aggravated homosexuality to aggravated defilement among people of different sexes, which also carries the death sentence.
The Bill, entitled the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, also states that anyone who commits the offence of homosexuality will be liable to life imprisonment. This was already the case under the current Penal Code Act. However, it gives a broader definition of the offence of homosexuality. A person charged with the offence will have to undergo a mandatory medical examination to ascertain his or her HIV status. The bill further states that anybody who "attempts to commit the offence" is liable to imprisonment for seven years. The same applies to anybody who "aids, abets, counsels or procures another to engage in acts of homosexuality" or anybody who keeps a house or room for the purpose of homosexuality.
Jim Burroway says over at Box Turtle Bulletin, there's also an unbelievable free speech clause that punishes any Ugandan who has a same-sex relationship or "promotes homosexuality" while overseas. The bill faces little opposition among lawmakers, and as you might imagine, if any did oppose it, there's no political incentive to do so publicly since that alone will put you under scrutiny under this law. And how about this nugget about the bill --
This drafting of this bill appears to have coincided with intense lobbying efforts by anti-gay activists following a conference held in Kampala which featured American Holocaust revisionist Scott Lively and Exodus International board member Don Schmierer. Exodus International released a statement "applauding" Don Schierer's participation in the conference which ended with calls to strengthen Uganda's homosexuality laws. Exodus International president Alan Chambers denies that Exodus supports criminalizing homosexuality. Scott Lively, however, defended criminal laws against gay people.
As we fight for equality here, look at what our brothers and sisters face in Uganda.
A stringent Bill against homosexuality is in the offing, the state minister for ethics and integrity, Dr. James Nsaba Buturo, has said.
Addressing a press conference at the Media Centre yesterday, Buturo said the country was besieged by homosexuality, pornography, prostitution, human sacrifice, drug abuse, embezzlement and witchcraft to the extent that it was "dangerously becoming a permissive society."
He noted that once the Bill is passed into law, it will be an offence to publish and distribute literature on homosexuality or advocate for it. He also stated that it would become impossible for homosexuals to address press conferences and attract people to their cause, once the Bill becomes law.
It's not as if LGBTs living in Uganda don't have enough problems with oppression at home (see Daimeon's on-the-ground report from a while back), they recently had to deal with bile and disinformatino coming out of a conference featuring some of the luminaries of the fringe anti-gay right. Box Turtle Bulletin has extensive coverage of the three-day event. Look at the participants:
There was a follow-up conference on March 15 in Uganda, sponsored by the anti-gay Family Life Network. The blogger at GayUganda covered it. It gives you an idea of how influential the rhetoric of our anti-gay leaders is to a receptive audience.
The meeting attracted an audience of over 60 people, mostly parents who included civil servants, government workers, researchers, journalists, activists and students. The assistant director FLN gave a brief background of Family Life Network that FLN deals with restoration of family values.
...The assistant director FLN then introduced the director family Life Network Stephan Langa as the main facilitator of the day.
In his opening remarks, Stephan Langa said the Gay Agenda is controlling the debate, so it is time for the family to take over and start controlling the debate. He also emphasized terms like "Sexual Orientation" and told participants not to allow such terms in our vocabulary, that these are terms or words introduced by homosexuals to full fill their agenda. He warned participants that homosexuals in Uganda want the constitution to include none discrimination based on "sexual orientation", he urged participants not to allow it.
Stephen Langa further said he has been doing counseling for young people since 2002, and that he has counseled over 300.0000 young people in over 700 schools.
Langa's poisonous, ludicrous screed suggests homosexuality is caused by sexual abuse, pornography, rebelliousness and that "children with bad parenting end up becoming homosexuals as they search for mother's or father's love." This is the kind of garbage that endangers all LGBTs there.
NOTE FROM PAM: House Blend regular Daimeon (of Get-The-Skinny) is in the extremely gay-hostile East African country of Uganda, which is led by its corrupt president, Yoweri Museveni. The repressive government there foments homophobia and denied basic rights and freedom to the LGBT citizens of the country, wielding a colonial-era sodomy law as its weapon, which sanctions punishment for "carnal knowledge against the order of nature." This has been used to imprison and torture -- and officially censor discussion of gay and lesbian issues.
No better on the matter is the Anglican Church of Uganda, which recently consecrated an American priest, John Guernsey of All Saint's Church in Woodbridge, Virginia, as bishop to oversee the 33 Christian parishes that recently split from the Episcopal Church in the United States over its more accepting view of homosexuality. It's no surprise that President Yoweri Museveni sent an official to the ceremony, Prime Minister Prof. Apollo Nsibambi, who supports the church's anti-gay stance.
"Importing values from the western world is inimical to our culture. I am glad to mention that the Church of Uganda, the Catholic Church and the Muslims joined hands to resist homosexuality in Africa."
Rather than affirm its gay parishioners, these American churches will now recognize the Church of Uganda's authority, which ceased accepting funds or gifts from any American charities affiliated with the U.S. Episcopal Church when the Anglican Communion consecrated openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson four years ago.
When you read Daimeon's report below, it's clear that there's no repression of free speech when it comes to blasting gays and lesbians in the country -- some of the comments in local papers sound like they are straight out of Free Republic.
Daimeon's dispatch: Inside Anti-Gay Uganda Pt. I
Well, I can't say I wasn't aware of the issues in Uganda, but seeing as my job takes me to places I necessarily wouldn't go to on vacation, I'm here in Uganda. I decided that since I was here I would work on a side project blogging on the issues of the LGBT community mostly from what I glean in the local news.
This just reminds me that while LGBT rights have a long way to go in the US, we certainly have it better than some of our family around the world.
Under pressure to relax their anti-gay laws, many Ugandans came together at an anti-gay rally in the nation's capital. The crime of homosexuality currently carries a life sentence in Uganda, and the rally was in support of that law. (BBC News)
The Interfaith Rainbow Coalition Against Homosexuality said the rally at a sports stadium in Kampala showed how much Ugandans deplored homosexuality.
Pastor Sempa [spokesperson of the Coalition] told the BBC's Focus on Africa that homosexuals were using the summit to try and "shame, force, coerce, intimidate Uganda into changing our laws".
"We are telling them that Africans find homosexuality reprehensible. Leave us alone."
It's just that he was talking about a different disaster. But there's another one, with victims the same color as those in New Orleans, that has the Bush administrations finger prints all over it. And unlike Katrina, anyone who deals in or cares about reality, evidence, and human life could have seen this one coming. Chances are some one in the Bush administration did see it coming, and just didn't care.
