Mike Tidmus

“For the radical Islamist, however, this distinction does not exist. Radical Islamists see politics and religion as inseparable in a way it is difficult for Americans to understand. Radical Islamists assert sharia’s supremacy over the freely legislated laws and values of the countries they live in and see it as their sacred duty to achieve [...]

San Diego’s slimiest theofascist, Pastor Jim Garlow, has partnered-up with the thrice-traditionally-married serial adulterer and probable GOP candidate for the US Presidency, Newt Gingrich. In fact, Garlow is serving as President of Gingrich’s Renewing American Leadership. I think the last time I posted a video clip of the rabidly anti-gay Pastor Garlow, he was explaining [...]

The cluephone has apparently rung chez Bryan Fischer of the American Family Assocation: “Newt Gingrich is not morally qualified to be president of the United States.” But? But? But? You say. Isn’t Newt Gingrich revered as a champion of morality among the holier-than-thou-canst-ever-hope-to-be culture warriors of the extreme political and religious right? No, says Fischer: [...]

[ updated: see below ] Thank you Christian Pastor Lou Engle, Christian Pastor Martin “Eat Da Poo Poo” Ssempa, Christian Pastor Jim Garlow and your good Christian buddies among the perpetrators of the ex-gay lie, thanks to the international Christian cosa nostra known as The Family, and extra special thanks to the rest of America’s [...]

When it comes to taking a stand for what they claim they really believe — lights on, hoods off — America’s christianist bullies turn out be a bunch of spineless cowards who lack the courage to take the stand for their own convictions. Dahlia Lithwick, writing at Newsweek, provides more than ample evidence of that [...]

The radical religious right’s carefully-vetted, anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-separation of church and state candidates for ‘activist’ judgeships in San Diego County were trounced yesterday. According to San Diego’s Union-Tribune: “Each of the victorious judges got more than 60 percent of the vote in his or her race, and several saw that wide margin as a rejection [...]

Shenandoah Baptist Church’s Pastor Jeff Owens: Burn and shoot fags! (video: Joe Jervis at Vimeo) [ updated: see below ] According to Pastor Jeff Owens‘ own website: Pastor Owens is ‘a soulwinner, fervent preacher, and takes an uncompromising stand against sin; but the hallmark quality of Dr. Owens is his genuine love and concern for [...]

YouTube ad links Sam Brownback and religious reich leader Lou Engle (video: KansasDemocrats at YouTube) The Democratic Party in Kansas is using the video above to connect Senator Sam Brownback to his former roommate in Washington, DC, the demon-obsessed ‘Shakey’ Lou Engle. The quivering hate-preacher was just in Kampala, Uganda praising that African nation’s American-backed [...]

Thanks to Better Courts Now for letting San Diego and California voters know which judicial candidates, if elected, will only legislate traditional Christian values from the bench — values like their fundamental opposition to principles like equality, liberty and religious freedom for all Californians. Voters, please take note: Better Courts Now’s judicial picks are the radical [...]

Tony Perkins: Don’t let gays be protected under law! Act now! (video: Fundie Research Council, via iloveJesus420 at YouTube) Out in the wintery cold and looking all earnest and threatened like, there’s Tony ‘Nothing in my past to be embarrassed about’ Perkins of the Fundie Research Council — an organization coincidentally co-founded by the gay-family-focused Dr [...]

Radical religious reich CRACKPOT Lou ‘Shakey’ Engle, who bore false witness about not advocating on behalf of the heinous ‘exterminate-the-gays’ genocide bill that is being considered in Uganda, is calling for “acts of martyrdom” in his war against gay people, women, non-believers, and goblins, demons and other made-up shit. If ever anyone deserved to have [...]

Pastor Lou Engle is a demon-obsessed freakshow, but then the fundies (like Lou’s good buddy San Diego Pastor Jim Garlow) eat that shit up: gibberish = speaking in tongues; twitching from onset of scabies = filled with the holy spirit. Now this Christian con wants to go to the African nation of Uganda and cement [...]

Emboldened extremist right incites violence (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Violent right-wing crazies, spurred on by anti-American teabagging lunacy and cheerleading christianst nutters like Tony Perkins, Lou Engle and Jim Garlow, have gone certifiable. Quelle frickin’ surprise!

Muriel (Toni Collette) and Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths) perform Abba’s Waterloo from the Australian movie, Muriel’s Wedding. (video: Muriel’s Wedding at YouTube) Here’s a little something for the freakshow that constitutes the radical religious reich. Suck it up, Senator Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin, Pastor Jim Garlow, Michelle Bachman, Tony Perkins, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Rush and [...]

Jim Garlow at “Prayercast”: Health Care Reform Violates The Ten Commandments (video: Right Wing Watch at YouTube) It’s a glorious Sunday morning and an absolutely perfect day for a stylish champagne brunch or perhaps a little Armageddon, if you’re so inclined. Because it’s the Sabbath, this is an excellent opportunity to make sure we all [...]

It’s pretty clear that the christianist right wouldn’t know (or tell) the truth if it bit them on their holier-than-thou asses. While Lying for the lord is as traditionally Mormon as having a rumpus room full of backup wives, who would have imagined the Mormon’s new found allies among the extremist religious reich and the [...]

How many thousands of San Diego’s taxpayer’s dollars will the paranoid pastor squander on security this time? (graphic: We Don’t Buy the “Ex-Gay” Lie!) Here’s a handy-dandy-how-to-get-to Jim Garlow’s ‘Mighty Fortress for the Lord, Inc.‘ for those interested in protesting the unfabulous ‘ex-gay’s’ Love Won Out prey-away-the-gay-fest this coming Saturday. Here’s the skinny from the [...]

Just Love — A Statewide Challenge to the Ex-Gay Movement Here is an updated list of speakers who will be addressing Just Love. The program will be hosted at St Paul’s Cathedral in San Diego this coming Saturday, 6 March 2010, from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. The day-long event will challenge Exodus International’s Love [...]

Republicans go nuclear with health reform distortions (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Over at The Hill, Rep Anthony Weiner (D-NY) writes: I said it on Wednesday, and I’ll say it again: the Republicans really are just a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. Thursday’s summit proved it: They want to destroy Medicare, shovel money [...]

Just Love – A Statewide Challenge to the Ex-Gay Movement On Saturday, March 6, 2010, a one-day event will be held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego. The 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. event will confront and challenge the misinformation and distortions of the ex-gay movement and challenge the efficacy of reparative/conversion therapy, [...]

We Don’t Buy the “Ex-Gay” Lie! Demonstrations on Saturday 6 March 2010 will coincide with an all-day conference being held in San Diego at St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral as an alternative to the Exodus International/Focus on the Family Love Won Out conference slated for Jim Garlow‘s Skyline Church in La Mesa at the same time. [...]

Can God turn gays straight? Hungry Beast ep 13 (video: NewOnABCTV at YouTube) The so-called ex-gay reparative or conversion therapy movement is rapidly becoming America’s most toxic export — ask any gay or lesbian Ugandan. Via Michael Airhart and Truth Wins Out: “Australian former ex-gays explain on national television how U.S. evangelicals and their Australian affiliates [...]

On the heels of yesterday’s news that staunch advocate for traditional marriage and contributor to California’s Proposition 8 Papa Doug Manchester has been granted a legal separation from his wife Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Manchester, who filed for divorce in August, we learn the American Psychological Association has cancelled its August meeting at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in [...]

Here’s your Saturday morning giggle courtesy of christianist nut-job Gary Cass. Cass’ signature brand of paranoid insanity is not unfamiliar to regular readers in these here parts, but he who organized a shitload of like-minded, gay-hating fundie pastors, including San Diego’s own Jim Garlow, to preach in Washington DC about the sheer fabulousness of executing the [...]

Patrick Strudwick went under cover and underwent reparative therapy and wrote about it for Britain’s Independent: According to a report by Professor Michael King of University College London, one in six UK psychiatrists and psychotherapists have sought to reduce or change a patient’s sexual orientation. And with the help of the American conversion therapy movement, [...]