Mike Tidmus

Bad news for the anti-gays at the Pacific Justice Institute. On Monday, the Christian legal goons attempted to sue the Governor and Attorney General of California, and, thereby, force them to defend California’s heinous 2008 ballot initiative, Proposition 8. The Associated Press’ Lisa Leff has that story. Fast forward to today, and, without explanation, the [...]

Keith Olbermann mops the floor with former President George W Bush (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) A picture is worth a thousand words. So are these two words: George W Bush’s Mission Accomplished speech was delivered on 1 May 2003 (photo: AP via Wikipedia) (tip: Digby, Hullabaloo)

I’m not really sure who comes across as the more desperate character: former congressman Newt Gingrich or his personal Igor, Pastor Jim Garlow, who is currently running Newt’s Renewing American Leadership. Gingrich Wants Ground Zero Declared a National Battlefiled Memorial to Stop Park 51 Right Wing Watch Gingrich came on to discuss his recent column [...]

This ought to put an appreciable twist in the theists’ knickers. Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe BBC News There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said.He had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new [...]

Glee’s Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) from Rolling Stone’s series on TV’s Best Characters and Most Memorable Scene-Stealers (photo: Rolling Stone)

Published two days ago, this article confirms something I’ve suspected for quite some time. The article comes via ACT UP Philadelphia and John S James. James is a revered AIDS writer who has been publishing AIDS Treatment News since the early, early days of the epidemic. Many HIV-positive gay men have post-traumatic stress disorder ~ [...]

“A handful of pencil-necked, metrosexual socialists in Washington can’t possibly defeat a nation of red-blooded, God-fearing patriots. … The spirit of Thomas Jefferson is alive and well in Honduras — especially in Honduras, where their Marxist just tried to tamper with their constitution, and guess what happened? The Honduran military took that socialist dictator wannabe [...]

“Let me be clear: I don’t want the GOP to pick up gay votes and I have no intention of voting Republican myself. Ever, ever, ever. But if Dems are worried about gay and lesbian progressives sitting out this election and the GOP managing to pick up the votes gay conservatives idiots, well, here’s how [...]

Christian pastor’s Ground Zero stunt garners negative attention (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) An infinitesimally small amount of negative media coverage of his attempt at garnering headlines, sent Pastor Bill Keller into make believe, full metal Poor Oppressed Christian™ mode: Press Supports Mosque but Condemns 9-11 Christian Center ~ Christian Newswire ST PETERSBURG, Fla., Sept. [...]

They seek him here, they see him there, the fundies see him everywhere … (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) Gasp. I have absolutely nothing to add.

“Here in America we’ve had what maybe three known real big terrorist attacks on our nation. But every day our young people especially, all of us, but our young people especially are in a sense bombarded with the message that homosexuality is normal and natural.” — Sally Kern, Oklahoma state legislator and Christian, following up [...]

AC360 – Focus On The Family: Anti-Bullying Efforts Promotes Homosexuality In Kids (video: Anderson Cooper’s AC360º via SuchIsLifeVideos at YouTube) Imagine the passionate arguments that Focus on the Family’s Candi Cushman would be making if it were, instead, Christian children who were being ruthlessly and brutally bullied. They’d probably be the usual Poor Oppressed Christians™ [...]

“You want to know who the biggest hypocrite in the world is? The biggest hypocrite in the world is the person who believes in the death penalty for murderers and not for homosexuals. Hypocrite. The same God who instituted the death penalty for murderers is the same God who instituted the death penalty for rapists [...]

Say Cheese! Glee ‘Vogue’ Flash Mob At Sydney QVB (video: RockYourBox at YouTube) This world needs two things: more gay kiss-ins and more flash mobs. Click here to watch lots more of each.

NPR has a piece up on Jeff Sharlet, the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, who talks about his encounter with the author of Uganda’s infamous exterminate-the-gays bill, Christian MP David Bahati: “Sharlet accompanied Bahati to a restaurant and later to his home, where Bahati told Sharlet that [...]