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.
Washington's statewide domestic partnership law is at risk and we need your help to save it. A ballot measure attempting to repeal the domestic partnership law is on the November 3 ballot. We have 6 weeks before ballots are sent to voters. Six weeks to be sure voters know to vote "APPROVED" on Referendum 71 to preserve the domestic partnership law.
Gary Randall, head of Faith and Freedom Political Action Committee and close collaborator of Protect Marriage Washington's Larry Stickney, is apparently afraid of a well-informed Washington electorate. He says he's hoping that some voters go to the polls confused. In fact, it appears that he's relying on it:
Randall said confusion on just one side could be beneficial.
"I'm hoping that everyone understands on our side that they're to vote "reject," and everyone on the other side thinks they're rejecting Referendum 71, so then we win," he said.
This is a strange admission from a member of the Christian clergy. But Randall's apparent hypocrisy is not what's important here. What's important is Randall's strategy in light of recent polls and the double-edged sword they represent.
A deep concern that we have is that Judge Julie Spector is openly homosexual and activist. She is found on a list of openly homosexual elected officials. In her campaign to be elected to her seat in 2000, she was quoted in the September 13, 2000, edition of the Seattle Weekly, calling herself a "dyke".
It is impossible to believe an openly homosexual activist judge could rule fairly in this case. We are considering our next step.
For Gary, Judge Spector's sexual orientation by definition tosses her into the "activist" category. Because, you know, only militant heterosexist theocrats can be considered impartial... This tells us something about Gary, and how sexuality apparently (over)rules his rational brain, and so he assumes it does the same for everyone else.
Sad that Gary won't even wait to hear the ruling and examine Judge Spector's legal reasoning before finding her guilty of ulterior motives. It tells me that he doesn't really care about justice, only about winning. And he'll smear anyone to win, apparently. Because you see for Gary, revealing that someone calls themselves a dyke is a smear. Personally, I find it rakishly charming. :)
Now might be a good time to review Oregon Gary's history of trying to manipulate the outcome of the 2008 Washington judicial primary elections. He wrote such learned evaluations about the candidates as this:
Holly Hill has the support of women, race and NARAL.
Les Ponomarchuk is the current court commissioner. We do not know a lot about him or his judicial philosophy but it appears he is taking a more conservative approach in seeking endorsements.
Rob Lawrence-Berry appears to be well qualified and has a mainstream church background. However, David Elofson appears to be a little more conservative.
One of Gary's picks, the heterosexually-married Michael Hecht, did actually win and is now a Pierce County Superior Court judge. Or was. He's on probation pending the outcome of his September trial. He's been accused of using racist slurs, stealing campaign signs of his opponents, hiring male prostitutes (paying in both cash and legal services) and threatening at least one of them with violence. Great pick, Gary, thanks! We should all trust Oregon Gary's wisdom about Washington judges.
Lately I've been starting the morning off by reading the latest edition of Gary Randall's My Daily Denial (his blog posts). Gary Randall is a key architect of Referendum 71, which asks voters to reject or approve Washington's domestic partnership law.
Today's issue featured an exceptional display of multi-layered denial on Gary's Part. He is in denial about what domestic partnerships are (by definition, "not marriage"). He is in denial about how a hefty majority of the legislature and the governor have reasoned that fairness is good for Washingtonians, and the vast majority of Washingtonians agree. And he is in denial that it was only via Protect Marriage Washington's lies and deceit and the contra-legal policies of the Secretary of State that his illegitimate referendum qualified for the ballot, if only just barely at that.
As I was reading it dawned on me that Gary has created this elaborate mental and fundraising mechanism not to fend off some gargantuan mortal enemy, but to persecute a mere 5,906 pairs of domestic partners, or 11,812 people. In a state of about 6,668,200 people, that's only 0.18% of the population.
Gary Randall is fixated on actively persecuting 0.18% of the population, the tiniest of minorities. Estimates are that this campaign will cost both sides in the millions of dollars. All to keep 0.18% of the population from being able to use sick leave to care for a seriously ill partner. All to keep 0.18% of the population from providing a partner with a pension they've already paid for should one die. All to keep 0.18% of the population from being notified if their partner is the victim of a crime. All to keep 0.18% of the population from providing death benefits to a partner if they are a police officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty.
How sad that Gary Randall is spending his retirement beating up the puny kid next door. And spending other people's money to do it.
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Tuesday evening Oregon voter Gary Randall announced his attack on Washington state law. He is trying to block the Secretary of State from making public the public documents known as Referendum 71 petitions.
Let us remember what Gary Randall is trying to do with Referendum 71. He is trying to prevent The Domestic Partnership Expansion Law of 2009 (SB 5688) from going into effect, thus denying vital protections to elderly heterosexual domestic partners and same-sex domestic partners. As The Olympian stated in SB 5688 is about fairness, not gay marriage:
What [SB 5688] does is give same-sex partners and some heterosexual senior couples equal access to laws available to married couples.
Examples?
The Senate Bill gives same-sex couples:
• The right to use sick leave to care for a domestic partner.
• The right to wages and benefits when a domestic partner is injured, and to unpaid wages upon the death of a domestic partner. ¦ The right to unemployment and disability insurance benefits.
• The right to workers' compensation coverage.
• Insurance rights, including rights under group policies, policy rights after the death of a domestic partner, conversion rights and continuing coverage rights.
• Rights related to adoption, child custody and child support.
• Business succession rights.
[...]
Critics will portray this legislation as special rights for gays and lesbians. It's not. It all about legal parity, and extends those same rights to unmarried heterosexual couples where at least one partner is at least 62 years of age.
At its core, Senate Bill 5688 is all about fairness and equity.
Gary's actions are a transparent effort to get public pity points in advance because he knows that the people who signed the petition will not be harassed when their names go public, as he loves to predict. He never misses the opportunity to cry wolf.
He's likely also trying to keep the names hidden so that people are unable to prove that they've been duped by his paid signature-gathering mercenaries.
Thank you for praying for Washington state! Enough signatures have been gathered to try and repeal SB5688 (Everything but Marriage).
God proved He doesn't need certain shepherds from certain churches to get His will done!
mmmROW! What a piece of work! Ken's definition of the Christian way is apparently to take a public swipe at your brother Christian when he disagrees with you about the wisdom of certain political involvements. (But he doesn't really disagree with you Ken, because you yourself showed doubt about the referendum early on.)
The root of this litter box dust-up is the very public refusal by Pastor Joe Fuiten and other conservative Christians to involve themselves with the referendum. Ken is so blinded by ambition and competition that he can't see clear to agree to disagree with people who should be colleagues, and who he really didn't disagree with early on anyway. Sad.
And are we surprised that Ken doesn't seem to notice that he was among the shepherds God did without?
Round 1 of The Radical-Right Catfight happened last week when Pastor Gary Randall put on his best passive-aggressive and said in response to Fuiten's comments on the sad state of the radical-right
I don't think people understand why he's trying to undermine the whole effort. Some people have said it's because he's not leading the charge. I wouldn't say that, but that has been said.
UPDATE: Check out the lies being spewed by signature gatherers in Seattle today, after the jump.
UPDATE 2: Chris Mason has posted the entire 9 minute video (thx Chris!). I've updated the post below. It is clear that the referendum mercenary was telling people that this is a yes/no vote on legalizing gay marriage. That is a baldfaced lie. R-71 is only about repealing an incremental domestic partnership law.H/T Joshalot
Wow. Just wow. This is what false Christianity looks like. Gary Randall and Larry Stickney, sponsors of the anti-domestic partnership Referendum 71, have a lot to answer for. This video was recorded by Chris Mason from Driving Equality a few days ago at the Port Angeles, WA Wal-Mart. While watching, keep in mind that Referendum 71 has NOTHING to do with marriage licenses.
[The paid signature gatherer] approached a woman and asked her if she supports same-sex marriage. When she said yes, he handed her the clipboard to sign the referendum. She though she was signing in favor of equal marriage. He tricked her, right in front of me, on camera. I called him out on it.
He said to her:
Did you have a chance to sign our petition yet? We're giving you an opportunity to decide whether or not you're in favor of giving homosexual couples legal marriage licenses. Not just the same rights as married people, but a marriage license too. Do you have an opinion on that, yes no or don't care?
The woman said yes, that she will sign, and he handed her the clipboard. It was obvious to me that she was signing what she thought was a petition in favor or giving same-sex couples marriage licenses. So I asked her if she supports same-sex marriage. She said that she did.
Referendum 71 has nothing to do with granting marriage licenses. Referendum 71 would repeal an incremental domestic partnership law. It isn't a fluke that this mercenary lied. Randall and Stickney have lied from day one that the referendum was about marriage. In fact, their petition sheets have the lie "Protect Marriage, Protect Children" emblazoned across the top with the following lies printed directly beneath
• The legislature just passed a law that effectively makes same sex marriages legal. By signing R-71 we can reverse that decision and protect marriage as between one man and one woman."
• If same-sex marriage becomes law, public schools K-12 will be forced to teach that same-sex marriage and homosexuality are normal... even over the objections of parents. Sign R-71 to protect children.
Gary Randall (pictured right) is having a conniption fit. Pastor Joe Fuiten, the former Director of Gary's Faith & Freedom Network and the very person who hired Gary into that cash cow position has had the temerity to tell the truth about Washington's radical right.
"As a political movement, it is a leaderless army milling about the field," acknowledged Pastor Joseph Fuiten, one of the area's most visible leaders on the Christian right.
Randall stammers in reply, bubububut "2400 people gathered on the steps of the Capitol, in the rain, for marriage." True, but just a few years ago they were able to amass 20,000.
UPDATE July 16th @ 8:45 am PST: Pastor Randall's lawbreaking continues into Day 6, according to PDC website.
UPDATE2 July 16th @ 1:00 pm PST: F&F PAC finally submitted their report about an hour ago (and 6 days late!) claiming they thought they were to use the candidate reporting schedule, according to a PDC employee. A poor excuse for Randall, who has run his PAC in Washington for years and surly knows the ropes.
In June Gary paid himself another $1,179 for his redundant website. To date, Gary Randall's payments to himself amount to a whopping 49.8% of all R-71 expenditures made by F&F PAC. Yet as he exhorts people to go collect those signatures, he seems to still be sitting on over $3,000 in unspent donations. Today's choice words from Gary
Expenses are continuing during the collection of petitions. Thank you for your financial support.
It's worse than I originally thought. A brief recap: Political Action Committees operating within Washington on state or local elections must file regular donation and expense reports with the Public Disclosure Commission (PDC). Gary Randall claims that his Faith & Freedom PAC "is presently, exclusively committed to Referendum 71. All donations to the PAC are used for the Referendum 71 project."
This past Monday, a PDC employee left a message with F&F PAC, reminding them that their expenditure report was overdue. By law, the deadline was July 10th. Since then, F&F PAC has filed two more contribution reports, but still no expenditure report.
Here is why the expenditure report is so important. Besides telling us how donor contributions were spent, attached to that report is the In-Kind donation report. In-kind donations may include other entities providing you with paid signature gatherers, for example. Until F&F PAC files its missing expense report with the in-kind contribution attachment, Washington voters won't know whether they've been hoodwinked by Randall & his local collaborator Larry Stickney in their claims that this is a local grassroots campaign.
Monday, Gary Randall was all a-flutter because two of his Referendum 71 signature gatherers had their pictures taken as they sat at a petition table.
Monday, July 13, 2009 Agressive Opposition at Wal-Mart ...Then this older woman came by, very aggressively against us, speaking in an angry tone, using language I do not use. Eric said that he would go in and talk to the manager, which he did. A man with her took our pictures. Then some time later the police came telling us we were trespassing and that we had to leave.
I presume that Gary intended his readers to conclude this was bad, or he wouldn't have reported it. But then Tuesday morning he recommended that his followers do the very thing he clucked over the day before:
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Video Camera Wards Off Harassment ...one of our signature gatherers gave us a great idea yesterday. She emailed me saying that she has found that if she keeps her video camera with her and begins taking video of those who are verbally assaulting her, they leave very quickly. If you have any video of this kind of behavior, please send it to us at info@faithandfreedom.us.
So fair-minded people taking pictures is bad, but if an anti-family Garyity can get an angry ho-mo-sekshulist on tape all is forgiven?
There goes Gary Cottontail,
Flippin' down the floppin' trail,
Flippity floppity
Double-standards are his way...
I think it only fair to remind Gary to be careful in encouraging his followers to get too shutterbuggy. Some of them just don't know when to stop.
Political Action Committees operating within Washington on state or local elections must file regular donation and expense reports with the Public Disclosure Commission (PDC). A PDC employee with whom I just spoke confirms that PDC has not received Faith & Freedom PAC's expenditure report for June. It was due 3 days ago, on July 10th. Even Larry Stickney managed to get his embarrassing report in on time.
Is Gary Randall trying to hide something, like this or this perhaps? Does he hate Washington's sunshine laws? Or is he just a bad manager? Or all the above? You would think that after the embarrassment of falling behind in signature gathering, Gary would try to make a good impression by dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's.
Two weeks to the signature gathering deadline for the anti-family Referendum 71, and Gary Randall finally released a progress report.
Conservatively, we have a little over 75,000 signatures to date.
With an ultimate goal of 150,000 signatures, it might seem that Gary's glass is half full. However, the petition has been in circulation for a full month now, or 2/3 of the time they had to collect signatures. If Oregon Gary's Washington operatives had been keeping pace, they should have already collected about 100,000 signatures. Gary Randall is falling behind.
Consider also that most of the captive audiences (churches, political groups) would have been mined for signatures by now. So where will the other half come from? A public that massively supports domestic partnerships? I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think it's telling that Gary must sic the Knights of Columbus on the state this weekend in a last-ditch attempt to scrounge signatures. I wonder if all that donor cash spent on Larry Stickney's opulent salary and Gary' Randall's frivolous website would have been better spent on paid signature-gatherers?
CORRECTION: An astute Blend reader has notified me that the reporting deadline for expenses incurred in June by referendum PACs is July 10th. I've re-read the PDC documents, and he is correct. I have, therefore, made a regrettable error in calling out Stickney and Randall for not yet reporting their printing and related expenses. They have not earned the accusation of hiding their campaign expenditures. I am sorry for this error and I do apologize.
Now the question is, do I yank the diary, or leave it up with corrections? After some deliberation, I have decided to leave it up but strike out the erroneous text and correct the title. This is my way of accepting responsibility for my mistake. However, I will remove the diary entirely if either Gary Randall or Larry Stickney request me to via e-mail.
Larry Stickney...said he printed 60,000 of the R-71 jumbo petitions June 5 and circulated all but 2,000 by Friday.
Gary Randall subsequently pitched an additional plan to "[P]ut out a large mailing...to over 50,000 homes that are known to be social conservatives. We want mail a petition to every home on that list.". That plan would have required printing 50,000 additional petitions. The fate of the plan remains unremarked upon by Randall.
So we know that Stickney's and/or Randall's organization(s) paid for the printing of 60,000 petitions, and perhaps up to another 50,000. To date, however, Stickney's organization Protect Marriage Washington has onlyreported $3.61 in expenses. Randall's Faith & Freedom PAC, which is "dedicated" to the referendum effort, has onlyreported $1,553.51 in expenses, $1,119 of which Gary Randall apparently paid to himself to set up a redundant website. Neither organization reports design or printing expenses. It's hard to believe that 60,000 to 110,000 petitions got printed for free.
The anti-child, anti-family folks at Protect Marriage Washington (Larry Stickney) and its non-cooperative competitor Faith & Freedom PAC (Gary Randall) have "released" a video. It has the catchy title "R-71: Lawmakers Encourage Christian Participation!" and features state senator Val Stevens and representative Matt Shea.
I'd post the video here, but apparently they don't want this gem to go viral (because who would want a promotional video to have legs?). The video host gave me this message
Sorry. The creator of this video has not given you permission to embed it on this domain.
To view it, you'll have to go to PMW's home office or to a video hosting website that Gary linked to in a recent email (interestingly he hasn't posted the video on any of his several websites.). Note that Larry and Gary are so much on the outs that Gary stillrefuses to link to any PMW web page, or even refer to the existence of "that other organization".
I wonder who masterminded this brilliant video? Whoever it was plopped Stevens and Shea in a funeral parlor sitting room and gave Stevens whole agonizing minutes to haltingly read Larry Stickney's debunked bwaking points from a note pad.
The video opens with a crotch shot of the gay divorcee Shea. Watch Shea's eyes wander as Stevens plods through her reading assignment. I'll warn you, the video is a real snoozer. Heads will nod in darkened sanctuaries. I recommend that clergy show it before communion if they use real wine.
Bonus track: Watch Larry Stickney admit that there isn't enough non-dominionist church support to get this referendum on the ballot.
An important question has been left unasked in all the hullabaloo surrounding the renegade WhoSigned.org. Namely, if the anti-family, anti-child forces behind Referendum 71 fail to gather enough signatures to submit it to the Secretary of State, what happens to the names, addresses and e-mails of people who signed the petition (the petition asks for e-mails even though they're not legally required)?
By law, referendum backers can do whatever they want with them. Including sell them.
Gary Randall is on record admitting that data from failed petitions go right into the Faith & Freedom Network's database and are later swapped with other organizations or used in-house for fundraising and other solicitations. Such lists are so valuable to a foundering organization like his that in 2006 he and then-ally Pastor Joe Fuiten got into a public hissy fit* with Tim Eyman over the control of petitions from their failed effort to repeal the gay civil rights law via Referendum 65.
* Gary deleted the pertinent Faith & Freedom blog post after I discussed it here.
Since at least May 5, 2009, Gary Randall has been asking people to contribute to his Referendum 71 effort by making a donation to the Faith and Freedom PAC. The Faith and Freedom PAC page reads, in part,
The Faith & Freedom Political Action Committee is presently, exclusively committed to Washington State Referendum 71. All donations to the PAC are used for the Referendum 71 project.
That first statement is a baldfaced lie, and here is the proof: The most recent registration form for the Faith and Freedom PAC that Gary Randall and Senator Dan Swecker filed with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission clearly states that the PAC is not a Ballot Committee, but an Other Political Committee. Further, it is registered as a continuing (ongoing) committee, not a single-year committee as would be expected for a ballot committee. This means that the PAC is not dedicated to Referendum 71. In fact, Oregon Gary has used this multi-purpose PAC in the past to manipulate Washington judicial and legislative elections.
Washington law clearly states that "Any material change in information previously submitted in a statement of organization [such as the purpose of the committee] shall be reported to the commission and to the appropriate county elections officer within the ten days following the change.". A sobering list of "Civil Remedies and Sanctions" is listed here for those who flout Washington's public disclosure laws. Oregonians are not allowed any special dispensation.
Lately I've been starting the morning off by reading the latest edition of Gary Randall's 
After sitting out the Referendum 71 signature drive due to ill health, Ken Hutcherson is back with claws bared...for his brother Christians.
Referendum 71 has nothing to do with granting marriage licenses. Referendum 71 would repeal an incremental domestic partnership law. It isn't a fluke that this mercenary lied. Randall and Stickney have lied from day one that the referendum was about marriage. In fact, their petition sheets have the lie "Protect Marriage, Protect Children" 
mined for signatures by now. So where will the other half come from? A public that 
