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Focus on the Family Asks for Rain on Obama's Acceptance Speech

by: juicyjuice

Mon Aug 11, 2008 at 23:24:07 PM EDT


(Good grief. I found the video and updated. - promoted by Pam Spaulding)

UPDATE: Here's the video, via Right Wing Watch and Good As You:

UPDATE 2 (from Autumn): Below is an excerpt of the Focus On The Family Radio Broadcast of July 21, 2008. In the broadcast, Dr. Albert Mohler and Dr. James Dobson discuss how awful an Obama candidacy is. The excerpt below covers what they believe an Obama presidency would mean to the "gay activist agenda." (Link to whole July 21st broadcast here.)

When one combines what Focus On The Family's Dr. Dobson said on July 21st with what Focus On The Family's Stuart Shepard requesting that Focus On The Family's Signal viewers pray for God to intervene with rain during the Democratic National Convention, Shepard's call for prayer takes on a little more meaning than just "boyish humor." (Dr. Dobson speaks first in the audio excerpt.)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Stewart Shepard, a producer of the Dobson cult  focus on the family, is asking folks to pray to god for rain on the night Senator Barack Obama makes his acceptance speech for the Democratic Convention in Colorado on Aug. 28. Of all things to pray for.....see Keith Olbermann's
take
on it.

Stuart Shepard made the prayer request in his latest Internet video for the evangelical Christian group.

He says he's only partly joking.

"Sure it's boyish humor perhaps to wish for something like that, but at the same time it's something people feel very strongly about. They're concerned about where he would take the nation," said Shepard.

 
juicyjuice :: Focus on the Family Asks for Rain on Obama's Acceptance Speech
That is truly incredible that you would ask your god  for something like this. Does this show how desperate the fundies are getting???


Yahoo

This "humorous" Stoplight video from Focus on the Family asks people to pray for "torrential, small-stream-flooding, an umbrella ain't gonna help you rain" on a specific time and place.

No, not any of the California fires. Denver, over the stadium where Barack Obama is set to deliver his nomination speech, that very night.

The video is no longer available...if someone can find it, it's 'stoplight pray for rain'...please post. Maybe god found it in bad taste and pulled it off the internet, ya think?  

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Keith Olbermann has Shepard as the Worst Person tonight
  and he has good company

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

To take an unpopular position for the sake of argument...
I can't see how Shepard's call is anything more than mean-spirited pettiness.  He is not calling for actual damage to anybody or anything, just a major annoyance for people he dislikes.  (Which, to be fair, is what some of the other posters on this thread are doing, even if in jest or if they were provoked.)

Calling him "the worst person in the world" for that seems like an overreaction.  Even if GWB sat on his hands for a month and ceased making the world a progressively worse place to live, he'd still be more deserving of that title for simply failing to do what he could to rectify his own mistakes and misdeeds.


[ Parent ]
Maybe so
But to use the power of prayer for something negative...not only is that pettiness, it shows the core values of their religion, you know, the one they use against others? It is a blatant show of the farce of religious righteousness, at least to me. How dare these people take rights away from me by saying I don't live "right" when this is the god they follow, one they feel comfortable with praying for negative things on others and believing it could happen. These people are f*cking crazy and sick!  

[ Parent ]
True
I couldn't agree with you more that it demonstrates their hypocrisy.

I guess I just want my friends to be demonstrably better in every way.  Every time I hear a little bit of pettiness or hyperbole or what-have-you from my side of the culture war, I cringe a little bit.  No matter how much worse the other side is, I keep on wanting my side to be perfect.


[ Parent ]
But really...
Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" lists are often used to highlight people who have been ridiculously mean-spirited and petty.

[ Parent ]
To quote Marge Simpson
God is not some holy concierge!

Keith makes a good point, in the midst of droughts in several parts of the world this guy prays for rain...to annoy Obama.


[ Parent ]
Breathtaking idolatry
I'm not much personally invested in defending the God concept against degradation, but even for me it's a bit much to see people who do claim to be believe in a Supreme Being invest Him with a vulgar Rush Limbaugh sensibility.  While supplicating for a storm to be cast at their enemies.

It obviously isn't God these people worship and pray to, but a run-of-the-mill tribal war god of the kind worshipped and prayed to by barbarians thousands of years ago.

"Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain" -- Iowa state motto


Yeah and I pray the First Mrs Mccain screams out during McCain's acceptance speech
That sleazy motherf*cker cheated on me after I was disabled and disfigured, and walked out on two adopted sons and his daughter, for a blonde 15 year younger pillionaire. The putrid SOB got his marriage license to the b*tch, before his divorce was final.

SO HELP ME GOD!

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


I also pray
A million Mexican march circles the St Paul convention center proudly flying Mexican flags and shouting VIVA JUAN McCAIN, VIVA AMNESTY!


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


maybe i can call down 7 plagues to hit the GOP conventions final night
The first born son of every Republican picks the precise moment of McCain's speech to say, "Mom & Dad I wanna be just like David Dreier and Charlie Crist, thin, tan, and queer as a f*ckin three dollar bill."

The St Paul cop sting will catch Larry Craig using a glory hole.

Cindy goes off the wagon and orders "percodets for everyone, on her."

Daddy Dobson falls head over heels for the Marine escorting Ann Coulter, and he's ANOTHER Military gay porn star.


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
Phyliss Schafely drops trough
When she walks into the ladies room and finds Mrs. vitter using the diaper station for DAVID.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
After seeing Hillary get a speaking night, Huckabee demands his own night too


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Irony?
people feel very strongly about. They're concerned about where he would take the nation," said Shepard.

That's laughable when you look at the how low the administration that people like Shepard voted for (twice!) has brought this country.

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams - 'The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy'  


How very... Christian of them. n/t


Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde.

"Taking the Lord's Name in Vain..."
..is considered a bad thing. This is an example of that, an attempt to influence God to act against one's enemies. It's considered a Very Bad Thing and pretty definitive of a group that has abandoned Christianity in favor of black magical thinking. ("Black Magic is a matter of symbolism and intent." - Lord D'arcy)

"Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light." Groucho Marx

As someone raised as a Christian
... like many of us were, this is borderline blasphemy.  Praying for the ruination of a fellow Christian is toeing a very clear moral bright line.  These people treat their faith like a game, and the rules are changeable when it suits their desires.

"Why Martha!  Your Sunday chapel dress!"

"trust in his wisdom"
I love how Shepard says at the end of his video that he will trust in Gawd's wisdom whether or not his prayer is answered.

This is guy that is already convinced that he knows what Gawd wants.  Would he hear/interpret a message that he didn't want to hear?  

He has named himself as Gawd's spokesperson...he doesn't actually need Gawd to have any opinion.  Gawd can just stay home and mind HIS own bizness...


Speaking for myself, I rather hope a lot of people take him up on his suggestion.
That way, when the torrential rains of Biblical proportion fail to appear on cue, we'll have another piece of evidence that either:

a)  There is no such thing as a deity who listens to and grants prayers; or

b)  Every such deity found that request unworthy of honoring.

Either way it puts a dent in FOTF's credibility as Spokespeople for The One True Deity.


[ Parent ]
Karma's a b@tch


This is actually a win/win for Obama
If it doesn't rain it assures that the fundies are idiots

If it does rain and Colorado is as dry as they say, who's to say it's not God thanking America for finally getting a leader who will bring the country together.


fof
has pulled it's answer to the Colorado drought plan.  Colorado Spring Gay zette

Pam,
J'aime ma Peau



I hope these dildos throw there whole heart and souls into this prayer vigil
When they are focused on this, they ain't f*ckin with our civil rights.
Whether it rains or not, Obama's gonna be your president.
America ain't having Grampy and his Britney-Paris fantasies.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Dear, Evil Right Wing Tool
Ever mind the Rule of Three!

Besser ein ende mit Schrecken als ein Schrecken ohne ende

Exactly, Beca
For as much as they fret about being forced to show restraint if a hate crimes act in passed, they certainly do not have any hesitation about silencing the prayers of minority religions, denying them access to faith based intitiative funding or even tombstones with our own religious symbols on them for our military dead(finally won that one)

They fight to keep us out of ceremonies, out of interfaith groups, they hesitate not a whit to discriminate against our faiths..

As you said, Rule of Three...one can only hope for justice..

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


[ Parent ]
As my dad said:
Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

a light sprinkle of refreshing rain
Then a spectacular RAINBOW

works for me

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Oh, that God!
What a wacky sense of humor he has...
Sure it's boyish humor perhaps to wish for something like that, but at the same time it's something people feel very strongly about.

That God is a laugh of minute kind of Diety. It's true! Just read the Old Testament...

How exactly did that go?

"Dear God,
I know you are busy handling starving children, epidimics of disease, poverty, and the bane of war. But if you oculd spare just a moment, I had and idea. You're gonna love this! It'll be so funny to see the looks on their face!..."

I don't know about them, but my God has more things to do than pull sophmoric pranks like setting off the sprinklers and sending people to Hell for loving and respecting each other.


watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka


Does this group praying really think rain would stop us.
I would walk through ground glass and NAPALM to get a Democrat elected after Cheney/Bush.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


What if they Prayed and Nothing Happened?
Focus on the Family goes after its two favorite targets; Gays and Pro-Choice Americans. But wait, what happens if they get all these people to pray for rain on Obama's speech and it doesn't? Or, if they are correct and they reveal God's true word, then why do they have to pray for a rain-out at all? Wouldn't God be sufficiently pissed off to express his wrath without the encouragement of mortals? I'm sure that Dobson and his minions can construct all sorts of excuses. Furthermore, if Denver gets so much as a sprinkle on August 28. Dobson will take credit for the schpritz.


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Just be Aware
God answers All prayers.  His answer is usually NO.

If they're gonna be on their knees praying for rain
let's hope they drown in the mud...

And can they maybe practice in a drought-laden spot first?  

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if it doesn't rain
It's just the Goddess saying, "Shut the F*CK UP, you're starting to really bug me!"

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Stuart Shepard
Jesus is Coming....and you wore THAT?

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Ha!
Yeah...while you're at it Stu...why don't you pray for a decent outfit!

[ Parent ]
is it irresponsible?
unless you're in the midst of a drought, it is irresponsible to pray for torrential, flood-inducing rain.  As a matter of fact, if they do manage to produce that sort of potential accident causing rain, they should be held financially liable for any ill effects that come from it - no?

I mean seriously, what a douche!


Jesus may have said it best here
Matthew 5:43-47: "You're familiar with the old written law, 'Love your friend,' and its unwritten companion, 'Hate your enemy.' I'm challenging that. I'm telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best-the sun to warm and the rain to nourish-to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.

Matthew 5:43-57 (The Message)
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Umm, Fundies skip those parts of the bible,
  They go straight to the homo hating pages, remember.  All that stuff about love thy neighbor, golden rules and 10 commendments are just there to take up space on pages to make the book bigger.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

[ Parent ]
It's not boyish humor
It's childish behavior.  There's a big difference, not like anyone on that side would ever know that.  They idolize people who say "Osama Obama" after all.

My America includes LGBT families.

WORSE than rain
That selfish SHREW Hillary is ripping the Denver Convention in half with her G*D DAMN EGO.
and her bitter pain in the a$$ militant supporters
She's putting her name in for nomination.

BOO the HAG off the Stage
BOO the HAG off the Stage
BOO the HAG off the Stage
BOO the HAG off the Stage
BOO the HAG off the Stage

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


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