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.
News 13 held a debate on Question 1, Same-Sex Marriage Thursday. News 13 welcomed Brian Souchet of the "Yes on 1" side, and Mary Bonauto, of "No on 1," to explain why you should vote for one or the other.
Several times over the next two weeks GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary Bonauto will debate Stand for Marriage Maine's Marc Mutty on the question of preserving Maine's marriage equality law.
The following debates leading up to the November 3 vote will be available to view or listen to online:
Thursday, October 22nd, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Live debate on MPBN radio
Moderated by Susan Sharon, Assistant News Director at MPBN
Listen at www.mpbn.org
Monday, October 26th, 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Live debate on "207" on WCSH-TV and WLBZ-TV (NBC affiliate, Channel 6 in Portland, Channel 2 in Bangor)
Moderated by "207" hosts Rob Caldwell and Kathleen Shannon
Watch at www.wcsh6.com or www.wlbz2.com
Wednesday, October 28th, 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Live debate on WMTW-TV (ABC affiliate, Channel 8 in Portland)
Cosponsored by Maine Today Publications (Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, Kennebec Journal and Central Maine Morning Sentinel)
Moderated by WMTW-TV news anchor Tory Ryden
Watch at www.wmtw.com
Thursday, October 29th, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
Live debate on WGAN-AM radio in Portland
Moderated by WGAN Morning News co-hosts Mike Violette and Ken Altshuler
www.wgan.com
Thursday, October 29th, 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Live debate on WGME-TV (CBS affiliate, Channel 13 in Portland)
Moderated by WGME-TV news anchor Greg Lagerquist
Watch at www.wgme.com
For more information on the No On 1 Campaign, visit www.ProtectMaineEquality.org
If I have time, I will certainly try to transcribe this.
But if you can, please take the time and listen to this discussion between long-time WCSH-6 reporter Pat Callahan, Stand For Marriage Maine's Marc Mutty, and GLAD's Mary Bonauto:
Admittedly my views are not exactly unbiased, but it sure does seem to me that Mutty, um, is very creative with the truth in his statements and that "Mary B" hit this interview easily out of the park.
I will not be attending the Democratic National Committee dinner next week. I was invited as a guest, and I want people to understand that GLAD has never given money and will never give money to any political candidate or political party. Moreover, GLAD has never tied, and never will tie, our community's fortunes to any political party. We have long realized that responsibility for our freedom and equality is primarily in our own hands - and we have to work for it. That is what GLAD has been doing for 31 years, and I think we have a track record of success in New England to prove it.
It would be counterproductive at this point for me to attend the dinner. I see and understand the anger of many in the community. At GLAD, we're angry, too. We're angry because we see and live and feel the discrimination every day. Many states and our national government enforce existing anti-gay laws or simply fail to see discrimination against lgbt people as both personally devastating and a stain on our nation's commitment to equal justice under law. Every day we hear from people who suffer unconscionable treatment, and we do our best to defend and advocate for them on a whole range of issues - marriage, jobs, transgender rights, safe schools, HIV and AIDS, and bias-related violence.
Our way, and my way, of dealing with that anger is to focus on the work. And we are working very hard - fighting DOMA Section 3 with our lawsuit, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, in which we represent widowers, retirees, parents and spouses who are hurt in very concrete ways by DOMA. So, as you can imagine, we had a very particular interest in reading how the Obama Department of Justice would tackle the Smelt DOMA challenge in California, even though it does not deal with concrete harms imposed by DOMA. All we knew in advance is that it would be different from the Bush administration's response, and it was. At the same time, some things in this new brief were startling; while others were silly, wrong or offensive or all of the above.
But litigation is never a pretty business; and we have been preparing at GLAD to take on and defeat any and all arguments made in support of DOMA. We are not daunted by anything the Obama Justice Department had to say. In my view, it is good that the community has let the administration know that we expect a lot from them and that we want leadership on lgbt equality and not arguments that reflect backward and unenlightened thinking. At the same time, it is unrealistic to think - at least in the context of litigating about the constitutionality of a federal statute that has already been upheld by several courts - that any administration is going to simply be able to roll over and surrender. It just doesn't work that way. There are certain rules in this particular process, and GLAD is prepared to engage the Administration in the courts according to those rules. And we are convinced also that we can win!
