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.
I was in the middle of writing something good about the Carrie Prejean situation but then I got knocked on my ass by the following:
A South Carolina politician with a lengthy antigay voting record who has denied that he is gay is lying, according to blogger Mike Rogers.
Rogers, whose work outing closeted politicians who vote antigay figures heavily into the documentary Outrage, reports that South Carolina Lieutenant Andre Bauer has reportedly flirted with several gay men, and one source has admitted to having sex with him.
Lt. Governor to Hold Press Conference Wednesday, August 26.
Lt. Governor Andre Bauer will issue a major public statement concerning the ongoing investigation of Governor Mark Sanford today at 12:00 pm on the first floor of the Statehouse.
And it will be interesting to see what Sanford has to say.(AP):
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer will agree to stay out of next year's governor's race if Sanford steps down, an offer he first made in June after his fellow Republican admitted a yearlong affair with an Argentine woman.
"People need to take their personal, political considerations off the table and think about what's best for the state," Bauer spokesman Frank Adams said.
Bauer, who was widely expected to run for governor in 2010, is now the most prominent Republican calling for Sanford to resign. Sanford can't run again because he is limited to two terms.
Supporters of other candidates have been wary of asking Sanford to step down because they did not want to give Bauer a long-term tryout for the state's top job.
Sacrificing the run for governor next year could boost Bauer's status in the state GOP but still allow the 40-year-old plenty of time for another election. His announcement comes a day after the first formal gubernatorial campaign news conference by Republican Attorney General Henry McMaster.
There are plenty of reasons for his entire party to call for AWOL-for-booty Governor to get out.
In a series of investigations since the governor told The Associated Press his mistress was his soul mate, the AP has found Sanford used state plans for personal and political trips, which state law prohibits. He also failed to disclose trips on private plans that ethics officials say should have been made public in campaign and ethics filings.
Well, it looks like Gov. Mark Sanford's marital healing needs a bit of work.
South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford and her four sons vacated the Governor’s Mansion on Friday and returned to the couple’s Sullivan’s Island home, where she said they would live for the upcoming school year.
Jenny Sanford and at least seven other women spent several hours Friday packing up four sport utility vehicles.
Women carried armloads of clothing on hangers, boxes, a small appliance and other items to the cars. Much of the clothing had been stuffed into plastic bags.
I am so thankful for the overwhelming support and prayers we have received from people all across South Carolina. I am literally in awe of how blessed we are to have such love and support from family and friends, old and new. It is with this support, and after much careful and prayerful consideration, that I have decided to move back to our home in Charleston with our sons for the upcoming school year. From there, we will work to continue the process of healing our family. While we will be leaving Columbia, we will return often, and I will remain engaged in activities in my role as first lady, acknowledging that my responsibilities to my family come first.
That was the polite Southern way of saying f*ck off, dirtbag. Come on, what else was she to do to retain any dignity as her husband (who, more pertinently as far as the public is concerned, abdicated his responsibility as governor when he went AWOL for nookie) referred to his concubine as his "soulmate" in the same breath as he told the media that he's got to learn how to fall back in love with his wife again. Gee, that was a great way to win her face-saving support heart back.
Sanford's problem is that his pious tossing around of his Christian faith and the sanctity of marriage has blown up in his face and the people of the Palmetto State need to eject this former aspiring 2012 Clown Car occupant for incompetence and self-absorbed "sexual healing" at their expense.
Talk about an abdication of responsibility -- the South Carolina GOP just gave a wrist slap to a man who left his post and went AWOL without telling anyone in government where he was going or turning the reins over to the Lieutenant Gov. Let's set aside the matter of the "little Sanford" controlling Mark Sanford's judgment to go chase some tail, there would be a whole lot more than healing going on if the Palmetto State was hit with a natural disaster or some other sort of emergency while the governor was getting his pole attended to by his Argentinian mistress. Do you have any doubt that if this was a Dem governor that the state GOP would be calling for the man's head?
South Carolina Republicans have voted to censure the state's governor Mark Sanford over a sex scandal rather than calling for his resignation, easing pressure on their beleaguered colleague to quit.
The party issued the censure late on Monday to admonish Sanford over his affair with an Argentine woman and said he had "breached the public trust" and demonstrated "repeated failures" but stopped short of recommending further action.
...The chairwoman of the South Carolina Republicans called for an end to the three-week scandal that began when Sanford disappeared for several days. Aides said he was hiking in the Appalachian but it later emerged he had gone to visit his lover in Argentina.
"Now is the time for healing," said chairwoman Karen Floyd.
Just like Ted Haggard, Gov. Mark Sanford's "little Sanford" took over the South Carolina governor and was led to his Argentine concubine by Satan, according to his spiritual adviser.
Each Sunday afternoon in May, Gov. Mark Sanford and his wife hosted five other couples at the executive mansion for a spiritual "boot camp." Topics discussed during the hour-and-a-half-long sessions included forgiveness and "not loving your wife as Christ loved the church."
...In an interview with The Associated Press this weekend at his Columbia office, just blocks from the State House, [Warren "Cubby"] Culbertson said he believed his friend when he said that this was his only marital transgression. He thinks Sanford was simply caught off guard by "the power of darkness."
..."God hates lawlessness and is tireless in His desire to dissuade man from his fascination with lawlessness," reads a paper titled "Cubby's Talks." "Our hearts are lions' dens of devouring lusts. Lawlessness torments righteous souls every day."
Culbertson does not believe the other woman went out of her way to seduce a married man. When asked if he had met Maria, Culbertson paused, then looked up, an embarrassed smile creasing his face. "I'm not going to comment," he said.
OMFG. The jokes are just writing themselves. Will Gov. Mark Sanford's best bud Lindsey Graham stick up for the Palmetto State Playboy now? (The State):
A reporter called a Sanford staffer, saying the paper had e-mails that outlined an affair between the governor and Maria. Unless Sanford would address the issue privately, The State would have no choice but to ask him - with TV crews filming - if he knew Maria at his press conference that afternoon.
The names of two other women tumbled into the newsroom.
Fearful Sanford's staffers did not get it - that the paper would ask publicly what Sanford's relationship was with Maria - a State editor called Davis, Sanford's former chief of staff.
...The editor told Davis why he thought the e-mails were genuine. They mentioned Coosaw, the Sanford plantation, and Sanford's love of digging holes; they quoted Bible verses and contained details about Sanford's known schedule.
And more names of women were coming in over the transom. The total was at three and counting.
"Women?!" Davis responded, sounding incredulous. "Women?!"
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he "crossed lines" with a handful of women other than his mistress - but never had sex with them.
The governor says he "never crossed the ultimate line" with anyone but Maria Belen Chapur, the Argentine at the center of a scandal that has derailed Sanford's once-promising political career.
During an emotional interview at his Statehouse office with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sanford said Chapur is his soul mate but he's trying to fall back in love with his wife.
He says that during the other encounters he "let his guard down" with some physical contact but "didn't cross the sex line." He wouldn't go into detail.
This is ripe for jokes folks. Is this about making it to 1st, 2nd, or 3rd base? What is he talking about, as a man of faith who believes in the sanctity of marriage + one concubine?
Gee, Eliot Spitzer stepped aside; so did Jim McGreevey. Guess Mark Sanford felt enough tears, piety and writing a couple of checks would get him back in the good graces of Palmetto State citizens. Hey, once a scandal-ridden pol invokes God or Jesus in the Bible Belt states, where homophobia and heterosupremacy know no bounds, it gives hypocrites like Sanford a pass. Look at David Vitter. (AP):
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford considered resigning from office after his extramarital affair came to light, the Republican revealed Sunday in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.
But Sanford, who hasn't spoken publicly since Friday, said he spoke with close spiritual and political associates who advised him to fight to restore the public's - and his family's - trust in him.
...Sanford repeatedly said he did not use public money for the trip, so it was not clear why he has agreed to reimburse the state for some of the more-than $8,000 in taxpayer money spent on the Argentina leg of an economic development trip to South America last year.
Uh, going AWOL as governor alone should be grounds for him to resign, let alone spending state funds on priming the pecker. What exactly is Sanford reimbursing if it isn't state or public funds?
The last thing Mr. Hillbilly Heroin head of the GOP needs to be doing is making asshat excuses for the Palmetto State Governor, but the creativity of blaming the President and his stimulus plan for Mark Sanford thinking with his "little brain" and going AWOL to be with, as Rush calls her in this clip, "his concubine," is amazing. Media Matters via TPM:
"This is almost like, 'I don't give a damn, the country's going to Hell in a handbasket, I just want out of here,'" said Limbaugh. "He [Sanford] had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He didn't want any part of it. He lost the battle. He said, 'What the Hell. I mean, I'm -- the federal government's taking over -- what the Hell, I want to enjoy life.'"
"The point is," he added, "there are a lot of people whose spirit is just -- they're fed up, saying to Hell with it, I don't even want to fight this anymore, I just want to get away from it."
Next, Rush had "one more thing" to say about the Sanford affair. He explained that people were telling him that the Republican Party needs to get rid of social issues because it is seen as hypocrisy in situations like this. But Rush rejected this idea. Instead, Rush argued that "society needs hypocrisy." This actually went on for a few minutes, with Rush essentially making the case that hypocrisy helps preserve morality more effectively that "moral equivalency" does, which is what liberals try to impose on society.
May I (Autumn) be one of the first to say "Thou hypocrite"? I guess I may!
Update (from Autumn): Oh yeah, had to admit to illicit affair during press conference. Admits wife & he are currently "physically separated" -- but not admitting to formal separation with spouse as yet.
I guess he's not running as Republican nominee for Prexy in 2012, eh?
UPDATE FROM PAM: What a hypocrite: after blathering about faith, he basically argues for moral relativism related to God's law and his indiscretions. He admitted infidelity, and has a relationship "that developed innocently." He talks about al the people he hurt and apologized. And he wants a "zone of privacy." Why do I think if there was a Dem caught with his pants down like this that Sanford would not be calling or any such thing? He's resigning as chair as the National Republican Governor's Association (Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has assumed the chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association, according to CNN). Asked if he's separated from his wife he said: "I don't know how you define that -- I'm here and she's there." He also noted that his whole family has known about his affair for five months. You can read a liveblog of it at the WSJ.
I'm fascinated by this bizarre story simply because it so fits the Republican Sexual Hypocrite mold. You knew it was only a matter of time before it turned into some sort of sex scandal. The ineptitude of 1) using state vehicles, and 2) not finding a better cover story to excuse his absence is mind-boggling. Buh, bye 2012.
TPMmuckraker smells trouble for the family values governor Mark Sanford, who flew off to Argentina on Father's Day weekend for a little R&R away from his family. Apparently he and his wife have been having trouble with their sacred marital bond and have been in counseling.
"There is some evidence he was not alone," a source in South Carolina politics told TPMmuckraker. "The other shoe's gonna drop. I believe there's a reason he wanted to drop his SLED detail."
According to the source, a second car was identified at the Columbia airport, next to the SUV Sanford is believed to have used. Two additional sources in South Carolina politics said the same thing.
You might recall that Sanford earned his homophobic stripes for ordering the SC Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Department to stop an ad agreement with Amro Worldwide, a travel promoter, after it began to market the state to potential gay tourists. He said it wasn't right to use state dollars to market to groups with a "specific social agenda."
But it's OK for him to drive his state-owned SUV to the airport for a "specific sexual agenda."
So he had to fly all the way to Buenos Aires, leaving the wife and kids at home during Father's Day weekend -- to unwind? How's that for family values? (The State):
Sanford said he had considered hiking on the Appalachian Trail, an activity he said he has enjoyed since he was a high school student.
"But I said 'no' I wanted to do something exotic," Sanford said "... It's a great city."
...Sanford said he was alone on the trip. He declined to give any additional details about what he did other than to say he drove along the coastline.
When asked why his staff said he was on the Appalachian Trail, Sanford replied, "I don't know."
Sanford later said "in fairness to his staff," he had told them he might go hiking on the Appalachian Trial.
This is freaking weird. One frend of mine noted that prostitution is legal in that country. Perhaps he was doing some other kind of recharging or unwinding. The State has a fun timeline of the AWOL drama. Have we seen yet another 2012 flameout? At the very least he's an irresponsible governor to be alone without security detail in another country without handing over the reins to the Lieutenant Governor. The comments at the end of the article are hysterical. Read some after the jump.
And his wife and staff aren't giving any details. (The State):
The whereabouts of Gov. Mark Sanford have been unknown to state officials since Thursday, and some state leaders are questioning who is in charge of the executive office.
Neither the governor's office nor the State Law Enforcement Division, which provides security for governors, has been able to reach Sanford after he left the mansion in a black SLED Suburban SUV, said Sen. Jake Knotts and three others familiar with the situation but who declined to be identified.
Sanford's last known whereabouts were near Atlanta, where a mobile telephone tower picked up a signal from his phone, authorities said.
Hmmm...and then this statement:
Jenny Sanford said she was not concerned.
She said the governor said he needed time away from their children to write something.
..."I was recently made aware that Governor Sanford has frequently been eluding SLED agents and disappearing at odd times," [Sen. Jake] Knotts said.
O-kay. So is it a live girl/dead boy kind of thing? De-tox? Or is he just having a little time away for R&R? Seems like this kind of extended time away from work would require the Lieutenant Gov. to step in to take care of state business if Sanford turned off his cell and isn't accepting any texts.
UPDATE: At least the Gov's Twitter account is still active, lol. Guess some low level drone with account access figured out to stop posting while he's AWOL or the Governor himself just likes leaving obscure clues:
Do we need we any more evidence that the GOP doesn't give a damn about the economic suffering out there? No, but Mark Sanford, the homobigoted governor of South Carolina, flipped the "Christian" bird to a caller during C-SPAN's Washington Journal. After all, partisan politics is so much more important when you're positioning yourself for 2012, like his fellow governor Bobby "The Exorcist" Jindal.
CALLER: I hope you all are not playing politics with this. People in South Carolina are hurting. You know how unemployment rates are high right now and going up higher. We are running out of money in the unemployment bank - we need money for that, the people that need help. And I'm one of them, I can't get no help. [...]
SANFORD: Well I'd say hello to Charleston because its home and I'd say hello to this fellow this morning and say that my prayers are going to be with him and his family because it sounds like he is in an awfully tough spot.
Un-f*cking-believable. Hat tip to Ben Armbruster at Think Progress, who added:
Sanford offered no other alternative solution for his constituent and instead argued that the state could not accept money to extend unemployment benefits because "increasing the tax on unemployment insurance" would negatively "impact the caller's family" (although he didn't say how).
The LGBT community in The Palmetto State is taking lemons and making lemonade out of the outrageous behavior of the administration of Governor Mark Sanford (R) earlier this year. It pulled a pro-gay tourism ad that was slated to run during London's Pride.
This year's events took an interesting turn due to the recent controversy involving a state sponsored marketing campaign. In July, Governor Mark Sanford ordered the SC Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Department to stop an ad agreement with Amro Worldwide, a travel promoter, after it began to market the state to potential gay tourists. Parks, Recreation, and Tourism claimed that the ad campaign was never properly approved and was conducted by a "lower level employee."
State Senator David Thomas, (R-Greenville) even called for an investigation. Both Sanford and Thomas denied it was homophobia that led to the pulling of the ads. Both said it wasn't right to use state dollars to market to groups with a "specific social agenda."
The controversy led to international, mostly negative, attention to the state, including ridicule on a segment of "The Colbert Report". While Sanford and Thomas backtracked from their original comments, the state refused to pay the nearly $5,000 share of the ad campaign. SC Pride stepped in and offered to raise this money to pay South Carolina's debt and has raised over $1,000 to date.
As you see, the bunched-panties reaction by Sanford and company provided great publicity for SC Pride, so it plans to honor the governor with this award:
Ryan Wilson, president of the SC Pride Movement, says a framed version will be delivered to Sanford's office. Perhaps it should be sent along with a fruit basket for good measure.
Gareth Fenley of Q-Notes has an explosive report on the backstory of the deep-sixing of a South Carolina ad campaign that targeted the gay travel market.
Governor Mark Sanford, another pol doing his own bit of marketing -- he's angling to be John McCain's VP to bolster support from social conservatives -- personally intervened to "correct" any notion his state was tolerant or welcoming of LGBT dollars:
When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford learned that his state was being advertised as a gay tourism destination, he ordered a Cabinet-level department head "to do the right thing personnel-wise or process-wise to ensure this does not happen again," Sanford's spokesman Joel Sawyer told Q-Notes.
...A state employee who approved the ads was called to a meeting with management and resigned, according to Marion Edmonds, spokesman for the state's Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (PRT).
If the employee broke any rule in the conduct of her job, it was apparently an unwritten one.
Well, of course it's an unwritten one. South Carolina is one of the most homophobic states in the country, and it has shown its ass yet again with the reaction the ad received from state officials who were horrified that unsuspecting European homosexuals might get on a plane and spend some money in the Palmetto State.
(Sorry, couldn't resist inserting this graphic! -- Pam)
News Release
And it will be interesting to see what Sanford has to say.(
