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.
Floating on a lurid sea of male symbols pornographically piercing female symbols is a picture of the Nelson family of Ozzie and Harriet fame. This is a new leaflet from the opponents of domestic partnerships in Washington state. The page title reads "There is something very good in this picture", with arrows drawn to "Dad" and "Mom". The following is written on the bottom of the last page of the leaflet
On the cover is a photo of the most traditional American Families [sic] from the 1950's television series, Ozzie & Harriet. David and Ricky Nelson really had it pretty good. They had a normal mother and father and grandparents. We simply want this for tomorrow's children and families.
Indeed they made a beautiful family, and for all I know were blissful together. But that didn't result in sons David and Ricky Nelson growing up to be good fathers or husbands.
Ricky's wife Kristin gave birth 6 months after their wedding. After making 3 more children, they divorced.
David had two kids with his first wife, divorced and then remarried.
The leaflet authors would label such people fornicators, adulterers and home-wreckers. Much like several of the leaflet authors themselves. Rep. Matt Shea is divorced, campaign manager Larry Stickney has divorced twice and married three times, and I have it on good authority that campaign attorney and strategist Stephen Pidgeon is on his fourth marriage, leaving children dotted across several states. Did the many children these men produced have the benefit of their biological father at home?
The Nelson family picture and the men politicizing it are proof that being raised by your biological parents guarantees nothing. It is a red herring. But one thing is guaranteed if we fail to Approve Referendum 71: heterosexual seniors may not be able to care for one another in times of crisis, and the children of same-sex parents will be financially disadvantaged and legally vulnerable. Protecting ALL Washington families is the Washingtonian way.
How appropriate that they placed a "close window" symbol on that page. The leaflet should be composted. The other 3 leaflet panels are just as ripe for rebuttal. They're pasted below the fold. Have at 'em.
Protect Marriage Washington has filed their Summary, Full Report Receipts and Expenditures, or "C4 report", for August, 2009. Protect Marriage Washington (PMW) is the political organization forcing a referendum vote on the domestic partnership law passed this spring by the Washington legislature and signed by the Governor. To preserve the law, voters must vote "APPROVED" on Referendum 71.
For the second month running, PMW's C4 has failed to report expenditures related to their paid signature gatherers. Their use of paid signature gatherers has been well documented in newspapers here, here and here, and blogged about here and here.
PMW has also neglected to report their legal expenditures. Attorney Stephen Pidgeon has been providing legal services for PMW since at least May 27, 2009, when The Olympian identified Pidgeon as attorney for PMW and its campaign manager, Larry Stickney. May 27th was the date when Pidgeon and Stickney initiated an unexpected legal challenge to the Referendum 71 ballot language.
Since that time Pidgeon has taken a very public role as PMW's attorney in their efforts to keep donor names secret, and in defense of PMW's collection of signatures from non-voters and PMW volunteers' fraudulent signing of petition circulator's declarations on petitions that they did not circulate.
James Bopp, Jr. of the Indiana firm Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom has been the primary attorney in PMW's efforts to keep their petition signers' names secret, with Pidgeon acting as local counsel. Pidgeon and Bopp continue to be identified as PMW attorneys and sign off on their court documents. Yet not a penny of cash or in-kind payment has been reported to the Public Disclosure Commission for at least 3 months of professional legal services rendered to PMW by two attorneys and probably staff at Bopp's firm.
The Washington Public Disclosure Commission just unanimously rejected Larry Stickney's request to seal the identities of donors to his political action committee, Protect Marriage Washington. Anti-gay Protect Marriage Washington is trying to force a public vote to repeal the Domestic Partnership Expansion Law of 2009, which was passed by an almost-super-majority of the legislature and signed by Governor Gregoire.
According to their website, "The Public Disclosure Commission was created and empowered by Initiative of the People to provide timely and meaningful public access to accurate information about the financing of political campaigns, lobbyist expenditures, and the financial affairs of public officials and candidates, and to ensure compliance with and equitable enforcement of Washington's disclosure and campaign finance laws."
The PDC has been listing Protect Marriage's donors on their website since June, but Stickney didn't request that donor identities be sealed until August.
Two key facts were unearthed during today's hearing. First, neither Larry Stickney nor the two additional witnesses who testified with him that they received threats for contributing to the campaign have ever been listed as donors to Protect Marriage in the PDC's online database! Second, neither Stickney nor the other witnesses could provide any evidence whatsoever of any Protect Marriage donor suffering undue hardship as a result of their name being in the PDC database.
PDC commissioners extended their sympathy to anyone who would receive insults due to their political views, but made clear that insults do not rise to the level of "undue hardship", a criterion for sealing donor names. One commissioner, apparently on friendly terms with Stickney, admonished him for being a crybaby in the face of insults, saying "I think you knew very well this was not going to be a cakewalk."
It is heartening to see the PDC stand tall in the face of attempts by Protect Marriage Washington to carve out for themselves a special exception to the law of the land. Let us put Stickney's request in a larger context, and remember that LGBT people are attacked and murdered daily for the simple fact of who we are.
Stickney was represented today by attorney Stephen Pidgeon, the anti-Obama birther.
Joe Mirabella over at the Examiner has a story up about how the Dynamic Duo of referenDUMB have violated the very TRO that Larry demanded to hide the identity of his anti-domestic partnership Referendum 71 petition signers. No stranger to restraining orders, you'd think Larry would know better.
Larry Stickney and Gary Randall, both extreme right wing activists working to repeal the domestic partnership law passed this year, have gone against their own request to seal the names of petition signers from the public. As a result of their litigation a Federal Court Order temporarily prevented the Secretary of State from releasing the referendum 71 petition publicly until a hearing scheduled for September 3. In court papers filed by lawyers representing Protect Marriage Washington, their lawyer argued that alleged threats, "have caused Larry Stickney a great deal of worry for his safety and the safety of his family."
"An Open Letter to Friends of Referendum 71" by Larry Stickney and Gary Randall was posted on three websites this morning, including the Protect Marriage Washington website managed by Larry Stickney. In the letter they disclosed the name* of Larry Stickney's daughter and confirmed that she signed the petition. It begs the question why Stickney and Randall would release her name if they actually believed harm or retribution would result from a public record of the petition signatures? Would a good father willingly put his daughter in danger if he believed the threat was real?
*[Lurleen: correction, they didn't disclose her by name, but identified her as the daughter of Larry and wife Polly.]
I wonder what (or who) Larry Stickney and "Pastor" Gary Randall wouldn't sacrifice to hurt domestic partners and their children? So far, Larry and Gary have thrown Larry's daughter to the wolves on three websites: Larry's Protect Marriage Washington, Gary's Faith and Freedom Network and the bloody-sounding Red County.
Besides making a mockery of their own TRO, the actions of Larry and Gary pull the rug out from under the melodramatic tripe that Stephen Pidgeon wrote in a letter impugning the integrity of Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed
I remind you that R-71 campaigners have faced death threats as a result of their desire to pursue the constitutionally provided-for referendum process in this state.
I guess trying to undermine the security of Washington families isn't enough for some people. Referendum 71 attorney and anti-Obama birther Stephen Pidgeon has just filed a federal grand jury petition in federal court on behalf of Patriot's Heart Media Network and several individuals. He claims that Obama is a British citizen. He names the defendants
BARRY SOETORO, a/k/a BARACK OBAMA, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, a/k/a BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II, a/k/a BARRY OBAMA, NANCY PELOSI, in her authority within the Democrat National Committee, HOWARD DEAN, in his authority within the Democrat National Committee, and JOHN DOES and JANE DOES, 1-20, members of media and press organizations
Some people stretch their fantasies a little too far into the real world. Btw, there is no such thing as "Democrat National Committee". But someone bent on denying the citizenship of a biracial man who became president certainly can't be bothered with factual details.
This isn't the first birther lawsuit Pidgeon has filed. Back in 2008, he sued Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed in Broe v. Reed for counting ballots cast for Obama, which Pidgeon claimed were invalid because Pidgeon said he thought that Obama isn't a natural born citizen. The Washington State Supreme Court quickly dismissed that tripe case. Strangely, although Pidgeon says he fervently believes we are being ruled by a usurper, he chose not to appeal his case to the US Supreme Court.
Despite (or perhaps because of?) the dismissal, Pidgeon seems to still pursue an animus towards Secretary of State Reed, now charging that Reed is letting "personal politics of those employed in your office...trump the integrity of [the R-71 signature certification] process". He does this in league with R-71 pushers Larry Stickney and Gary Randall. Btw, Gary Randall's jumped into the Obama's gonna kill your granny! clown car. What a bunch of wackos.
Referendum 71 seeks to repeal the incremental Domestic Partnership Expansion Law of 2009 in Washington state, but would not do away with domestic partnerships. I have no doubt that there are some very determined and dedicated people pushing the smarmy referendum. However, it is telling that both Larry Stickney and Gary Randall have had to do the donkey work themselves. In any reasonably popular effort, campaign managers propose while volunteers dispose.
And you can practically hear the sweat dripping off of Larry's drenched-to-squishy shirt
Having personally logged over 1500 driving miles in the past five days delivering R-71 petitions... ---Larry Stickney
What does this tell us of the campaign? Well, let's just say that when the latest padding of your endorsement list is a retiree who admits that he heads up a "small organization" (I was visitor 164 to his website) and has previously spoken publicly against the referendum as a foolhardy endeavour (see Wayne Lawson quote), what this tells us is that the campaign has very little popular support indeed.
Same-sex divorce...is 8 times higher among homosexual men, and 300 times higher among homosexual women.
Pidgeon said these numbers were from a study looking at France, but there can be no study on the divorce rate of same-sex couples in France because same-sex marriage is not legal in France. Similar wild and unsubstantiated numbers have been fabricated by many anti-family activists. Larry Stickney has posted a video of Pidgeon speaking this lie on the Protect Marriage Washington website (they're the Referendum 71 people).
I decided to check the actual, meaningful numbers here in Washington. Not same-sex divorce rate, because as in France, same-sex couples can't get married in Washington. But domestic partnership dissolution rates. After reviewing the numbers, I can see why Pidgeon resorted to make-believe; reality just doesn't jive with his apparent need to vilify gay families.
Consider this: Oregonian Gary Randall and his Washington operative Larry Stickney know from the outset that they're destined to FAIL their referenDUMB effort to repeal the new WA domestic partnership law. And their natural allies know too, because they've said so many times, quite embarrassingly and publicly.
Then Larry waits until the last possible hour of the last possible day to challenge the ballot language of his own referendum.
And then today, without explanation, he cancels his own challenge to the language of his own referendum. And it gets better. Guess who Larry's lawyer was for the ballot language challenge disaster? Stephen Pidgeon, the guy who thinks men in smokey-windowed SUVs are after him. Well, good to know that Larry is wasting donor funds giving billable work to this outlier from the Crumbling Coalition of Fanatical Fringe. And all for the glory of God nothing.
If I were in support of the referendum, I'd seriously wonder if these gentlemen were leading me down the garden path. The kindest word for it is INCOMPETENT.
[When] you come in and you introduce the concept of same-sex marriage or secular marriage, or any of the other rituals that have been formed by the state - and what you do is disestablish the godly order in favor of an order of death. Now let me say this to you Larry, because it's the important part. The government, government was created to kill.
Ever since the anti-equality lobby day in Olympia this past March, I've been kicking myself that I didn't record the speeches. There was one speech in particular that I was ruing the loss of, because it was such an excellent example of the sort of extreme wingnuttery that repels the average voter. It was Stephen Pidgeon's speech.
Now, amazingly, Larry had posted a video of Mr. Pidgeon's rally speech on his Ref 71 web page. Larry has also posted the audio file of a radio interview he did with Mr. Pidgeon on February 27th, a few weeks before the rally. A transcript of the audio file is below, as is the Pidgeon video and its transcript. I recommend the radio interview because the duo had more time to lay down thick layers of batshit than did Mr. Pidgeon in his rally speech. But the video is also fun just to see it rip. And finally, since it is sometimes instructive to string together pearls of wisdom on one cord, I've placed A Gallery of Pidgeon Corkers at the end of the post.
On that list is one Stephen Pidgeon, Esq. I guess if they're not embarrassed to glom onto the wingnutty Constitution Party, they'll accept about anyone. Stephen Pidgeon is one, um, interesting individual. If you:
enjoy paranoid tales of black vehicles stalking drama queen attorneys...
want to sample the latest in over-the-top evils LGBT people are being compared to...
delight at the thought of hearing how Mr. Pidgeon bilked disgruntled donors of $30,000 on a ridiculous "Obama ain't Amurikun" lawsuit...
Floating on a lurid sea of male symbols pornographically piercing female symbols is a picture of the Nelson family of Ozzie and Harriet fame. This is a new leaflet from the opponents of domestic partnerships in Washington state. The page title reads "There is something very good in this picture", with arrows drawn to "Dad" and "Mom". The following is written on the bottom of the last page of the leaflet
The Washington Public Disclosure Commission just unanimously rejected Larry Stickney's request to seal the identities of donors to his political action committee, Protect Marriage Washington. Anti-gay Protect Marriage Washington is trying to force a public vote to repeal the Domestic Partnership Expansion Law of 2009, which was 
Joe Mirabella over at the 
Besides making a mockery of their own TRO, the actions of Larry and Gary pull the rug out from under the melodramatic tripe that Stephen Pidgeon 
