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 am not saying to Christian conservatives, 'There is no place for you.'. I am saying, 'Please stop saying there is no place for us.'
Wow. While Meghan McCain's been grabbing all the headlines for her speech to the LCRs over the weekend, Christine Todd Whitman, the former NJ governor, said the above during her speech at the LCR gathering.
Her remarks are spot-on -- the fundies claim at every turn that they are being oppressed and ignored. The truth hurts, bible beaters -- and now a few party moderates are decloaking because they've simply had enough of the Religious Right destroying the party by pushing for a theocracy.
"Well, I am somebody who believes in the separation of church and state and that the government, frankly, ought to be out of the business of marriage entirely," Whitman told CNSNews.com after her speech.
"It ought to be everybody - heterosexual, homosexual. When you go down and register to get married, that's when the legal transfer of everything occurs and that's a legal recognition of a relationship - and if you want to get married in a church, a temple, whatever, and you find one, great!" she said.
..."I would like them to take it out. I just don't think it's an issue that ought to be in a party platform. It's a personal issue, not a political one."
Gee, that doesn't jibe with Rudy Giuliani's gay former roomie Howard Koeppel, who said that Rudy's "opposition to gay marriage stems from his religious and political beliefs, not his personal ones."
The irony is that in comparison to Whitman, McCain's remarks, while supportive, don't drive home the points nearly as well.
I did not expect my frustration with what I perceive to be overly partisan and divisive Republicans to cause a national incident. And no, I'm not that engaged with myself to think it was even that much of an incident. People in our country have much more important issues to deal with on a daily basis. But the experience did reinforce what I learned on the campaign trail in some major ways. I'll summarize them in three points:
1. Most of our nation wants our nation to succeed.
2. Most people are ready to move on to the future, not live in the past. and
3. Most of the old school Republicans are scared shitless of that future.
Yeah, those folks are scared, but few moderates are willing to speak out and specifically question the motives and lack of respect for the separation of church and state -- Whitman pulled no punches.
As you might imagine, the Freeper swamps were filled with seething knuckledraggers who launched into tirades over both women. Read the insanity below the fold.
Meghan McCain: And I think there's an extreme on both parties and I hate extreme. I don't understand. I have friends that are the most radically conservative and radically liberal people possibly ever and we all get along. We can find a middle ground.
Laura Ingraham (mockingly speaking as if she were Meghan McCain): Ok, I was really hoping that I was going to get that role in the Real World, but then I realized that, well, they don't like plus-sized models. They only like the women who look a certain way. And on this 50th anniversary of Barbie®, I really have something to say.
So, let's back up a bit. On Monday, March 9th, moderate Republican Meghan McCain wrote a column on The Daily Beast, entitled My Beef With Ann Coulter. So last Thursday, Meghan McCain made an appearance on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, in part of the interview, McCain responds to Ann Colter's style of commentary. Part one of the interview:
In response to the interview, Laura Ingraham played a segment of Meghan McCain's interview with Maddow, and then Ingraham made a comment about how fat she believes McCain is -- dismissing McCain because she's not as thin as a Barbie doll.
At this point, I have more respect for Ann Coulter than I do for Laura Ingraham because at least Coulter didn't come back at me with heartless, substance-less attacks about my weight. All I can do is try to be a positive role model for women of my generation and, I hope, help show that no matter what industry you are in, what size you are has nothing to do with your worth.
Ouch. McCain has less respect for Ingraham than she does for Coulter because of Ingraham's substance-less commentary? Ouch.
And, "...what size you are has nothing to do with your worth." As a woman who not long ago weighed close to 300 pounds, and is full of political opinion, that thought hits home. Thank you for voicing that thought, Meghan McCain.
Seriously, with commentators/entertainers like Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham being voices for the Republican party, do Republicans have any real chance of mounting a serious comeback anytime soon? Especially with women...Especially with plus-sized women? Republicans "entertainers" seem to want their party to be as narrowly defined a political party as possible, totally devoid of any women but fluffheaded, ultra-conservative "thinking" versions of Barbie®.
