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 [...]

Says Porno Pete‘s toady little sidekick Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs at Liberty Counsel: “This is an unfortunate testament to the level with which the government at nearly every level is completely out of touch with the very people that it purports to represent.” Right. That or it’s a fortunate testament to the people [...]

Poor-Oppressed-Christian™ Matt Philbin, of the always hilarious Culture & Media Institute, thinks Saint Ronnie got shafted by Huffington Post columnist Mark Juddery in the post below. Philbin: This is how “liberal Hollywood reminds us in one brief web slideshow how the left is both condescending and intellectually dishonest.” Really? Philbin continues: Now excuse me y’all [...]

“I get the distinct feeling the White House hopes it can simply duck the marriage question straight through 2012, and I’d also bet dollars to doughnuts it won’t be able to. What became clear to me while interviewing attendees of the August 6 meeting was that while the friendly audience may have cut the administration [...]

San Diego’s gay demonstrators refused to be moved to the back of the bus: “Three heterosexual couples had approached for their scheduled appointments this morning. The group refused to move and allow the couples access to the office. Deputies repeatedly asked the protesters to move before removing the initial three participants of the sit-in in [...]

This is an open letter from Cecile Veillard, President of the San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (SAME): As we hope you have already heard, members of SAME and others in our community are rallying to the side of our friends Tyler & Tony Dylan-Hyde, and Michael Anderson & Brian Baumgardner, and anyone else wanting [...]

“To enforce this direct assault on common sense and God’s building block of civilization will require all sorts of tyranny. Dissent will be crushed. Institutions will be denied funds. Firings will occur. Academics will face star chambers (that is, more star chambers). Governments at all levels will turn into battering rams against pastors, churchgoers, observant [...]

“Supporters of Walker’s decision cite the Declaration of Independence about our ‘inalienable rights’ to ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ But that same declaration says we were endowed with those rights by our Creator. When did the Creator indicate that among these rights was for homosexuals to have their unions recognized as marriages? “The [...]

“The record leaves no doubt, none at all, that California, 44 other states, and the vast majority of countries throughout the world continue to draw the line at marriage because it continues to serve a vital societal interest that is equally ubiquitous — to channel potentially procreative sexual relationships into enduring, stable unions for the [...]

Seriously? This is nothing more than welfare for big businesses that, unlike most of us, pay no taxes, but which feel perfectly entitled to spout off about issues like “socialism” and the “redistribution of wealth” and other hard-right political positions … not to mention the usual bigoted attitudes toward women, non-believers, people of other faiths [...]

“Because of Judge Walker’s firmly reasoned and occasionally soaring decision earlier this month, there was no reason to continue the prohibition [of same-sex marriages]. After a full-blown trial that gave opponents every opportunity to prove the harm caused by same-sex marriage, the court found that it caused no harm whatsoever to the state or society. [...]

Emergency! Emergency! Must stop those evil California gays from tying the knot. Yawn. Yes on Prop H8 now suddenly claims to have lots of arguments against marriage equality, but, as you read NOM president Brian Brown‘s breathless intro (“I’ve never seen a smackdown of a judge quite like it”), recall that Yes on Prop 8′s [...]

“Because [the anti-gays of the extremist religious reich] filed their motion to stay before the court issued its findings of fact and conclusions of law, proponents do not in their memorandum discuss the likelihood of their success with reference to the court’s conclusions. Neither do proponents discuss whether the court of appeals would have jurisdiction [...]

Underwater video of sharks circling Chuck Patterson’s board at San Onofre State Beach (video: Chuck Patterson at Vimeo) Chuck Patterson: The day before I shot this video, I was SUP surfing with a couple friends and 2 sharks circled us for about 15 minutes. The next day, I decided to go back out at around [...]

“Those who support traditional marriage recognize that gay people can be loyal friends, dedicated community leaders, and beloved sons and daughters. And those with religious objections to same-sex marriage distinguish between the conduct, which they consider inappropriate, and the person, whom they may cherish and appreciate.” — Lamar Smith, Republican congressman from Texas, who has [...]