Mike Tidmus

Rachel Maddow interviews Matthew Shepard’s mother Judy Shepard  (video: The Rachel Maddow Show, via News Politics News at YouTube) This evening, Rachel Maddow interviewed Judy Shepard, mother of murdered gay student Matthew Shepard and Executive Director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Learn more about hate crimes and The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act [...]

The top-secret No Offense audition tapes revealed (graphic: mine) I’m not at liberty to reveal my source, but, late this afternoon, I received copies of the audition tapes for the National Organization for Marriage’s new ad featuring Miss California, Carrie Prejean. Unfortunately, the audio is somewhat garbled, but the transcript accompanying the video reads, “No offense [...]

“We the People” stand together for marriage equality and religious freedom (video: Courage Campaign at YouTube)

On Tuesday, I posted some general information about swine flu and the HIV+ community. At Britain’s Terrence Higgins Trust, Doctor Michael Brady answers common questions from people living with HIV/AIDS: Are people with HIV at greater risk of getting swine flu? People with HIV are probably at no greater risk of getting swine flu. Although [...]

Barney Frank speaks during Hate Crimes hearing in Congress 4/29/09 (video: In Looking Out at YouTube) Yesterday, I reported that hate group maven Andrea Lafferty, of the Traditional Values Coalition, brought up the arrest of a handful of Christians in Philadelphia as an example of how the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity in the Local [...]

Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person in The World – Republican and radical religious right spokesmodel Congresswoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina (video: News Politics News at YouTube) The reaction to North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx’s insidious claim that the murder of gay student Matthew Shepard ten years ago was not a brutal hate crime, but rather a [...]

Know offense, NOM (video: Good As You at YouTube) Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper smartly responds to the National Organization for Marriage’s latest codswallop,  exploiting  featuring Miss California (for the moment), Carrie Prejean. NOM’s President, Maggie Gallagher — who knows better and is therefore arguably bearing false witness, claims no champion of marriage equality will step up [...]

You’ve probably heard that the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act — also known as the Matthew Shepard act, won approval in the US House of Representatives today. It’s unreal to listen to the radical religious right’s twisted take on how that unfolded, but let’s give Jim Brown and Andrea Lafferty, of the hate group Traditional Values Coalition, the [...]

Good news from the Granite State! The New Hampshire Senate has passed the state’s marriage equality bill. The Washington Blade filed this report: The New Hampshire State Senate has voted in favor of legislation that would grant same-sex couples marriage rights in the state. The Senate voted 13-11 on second reading in favor of House [...]

Rep. Virginia Foxx dishonored Matthew Shepard’s death on the House Floor (video: Media Matters Action at YouTube) If you were wondering just how low the radical religious right and their Republican enablers would go to fight The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 — aka The Matthew Shepard Act. Now we know. They’re absolutely [...]

Personally, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land where you can choose truth or opposite truth. You know what, in my country, in my family, I do believe that truth should be between a person and his or her conscience and, no offense to [...]

Traditional Values Coalition: Dishonest or Dumb? (video: Rob Tisinai at YouTube) If you’ve been reading along, you’re undoubtedly aware of the well-orchestrated effort by the radical religious right to discredit the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 — also known as the Matthew Shepard Act, which is currently before the US Congress. Although the bill [...]

Sarah Posner, writing at The American Prospect blog, shares her thoughts on yesterday’s decidedly underwhelming anti-marriage-equality rally in Washington DC: D.C. Anti-Gay-Marriage Rally Jumps the Shark. I’ve lived in Washington for 20 years, and I have to admit there are two people whose joint appearance on a dais I never contemplated: the Family Research Council’s [...]

George W Bush prophetically tells Al Arabiya News how and why he should be prosecuted (video: Al Arabiya, via YouTube) Tip: Andrew Sullivan, via Ed Brayton

Jim Burroway, at Box Turtle Bulletin, reveals the Council for Global Equality’s Top Ten List “Where The U.S. Should Do More.” The Council for Global Equality, in responding to the U.S. State Department’s annual human rights reports, has identified what it calls the “Top Ten Opportunities for the U.S. to Respond” to anti-LGBT human rights abuses [...]