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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
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"A nutty lesbian blogger."
(MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
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Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 16:22:45 PM EST
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| Like pretty much everybody else, I feel like crap today. Yet I still sustain my addiction to political news by looking at other news sources' spin on the Maine loss. Check out the following:
http://patchworknation.csmonit...
This piece from the Christian Science Monitor argues why state popular votes -- referenda and initiatives -- are virtually impossible for us to win. The article interests me because it has a new (new to me, anyway) way of classifying voting blocs. Rather than urban/rural, African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Caucasian, old/young, college-educated/not, etc., Patchwork Nation looks at community groupings. Categories include "Service Worker Center" (of which the author reports Maine is largely comprised), "Military Bastion", "Industrial Metropolis", "Monied 'Burbs" and "Campus and Careers". From the article:
Where the support is
Only two of the 12 community types show majorities in "favor [of] allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally," according to data from the Pew Research Center survey, which was in August. In the relatively wealthy "Monied 'Burbs," about 54 percent offer support. In the collegiate "Campus and Careers" counties, that number is about 57 percent.
The one "Monied 'Burb" county in Maine - Cumberland - supported the gay-marriage law by big margins - more than 60 percent as of 1 a.m. Wednesday. Meanwhile, the three "Service Worker Center" counties immediately around Cumberland voted against keeping the law. (Maine does not have any "Campus and Careers" counties.)
I wonder if this analysis is being or can be used in targeting voters and also can be employed to decide how to do outreach to these different community groupings. Social scientists or urban anthropologists and political organizers among blenders, any ideas? |
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