Mike Tidmus

“GOProud should not even be considered a gay Republican group, and should not be called so. They are a Republican ultra conservative group, apparently made up of only a handful of members. They don’t even support pro gay Republicans. In California last month they endorsed the same candidate in the U. S. Senate race as [...]

Activist and possible Presidential candidate, Fred Karger‘s organization Californians Against Hate has a brand new nationwide focus, a brand new look and a brand new name: Rights Equal Rights. Here’s a taste of the online announcement that went up this morning: We’re Changing Our Name Rights Equal Rights It’s been just two years since a [...]

It’s the same old song and it didn’t have a beat you could dance to the first time around: “The group believes the commission does not have the authority to conduct the investigation,” said NOM’s attorney of the state’s official investigating body, the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices. That commission, on a [...]

Some curious news from San Diego: Papa Doug Manchester is giving up control of his Downtown Hyatt. For just under two years, the posh hotel has been the subject of a highly successful boycott — millions in lost bookings and cancellations — due to Manchester’s $125k donation to kick off California’s notorious Proposition 8, which [...]

A high-ranking Iowa Republican official, reacting to Californians Against Hate‘s role in bringing the National Organization for Marriage to justice in Maine, has vowed, via an email, to ‘abort’ the political aspirations of the group’s founder, Fred Karger. Karger and Californians Against Hate have aggressively hounded anti-marriage equality organzations across the country — including NOM [...]

Don’t Get Caught in a Bad Hotel (video: prideatworksf at YouTube) Glee in!

Californians Against Hate founder, Fred Karger, to Mitt Romney: Apologize! (all photos: Mike Tidmus. Fair use encouraged) As former Massachusetts governor and presidential aspirant Mitt Romney signed copies of his new book, No Apology – The Case for American Greatness, a dozen demonstrators from Californians Against Hate assembled on the sidewalk outside the posh suburban [...]

As if! (graphic: Mike Tidmus. Here’s the real cover … boring) So hey, San Diego! Come on out meet and greet presidential aspirant Mitt Romney on Monday at 6:00 in La Jollies. The Mittster will be signing copies of his new book (that kinda looks like the one above) at the Deseret Bookstore in the [...]

Mormon church documents headed to Prop 8 trial? (video: Chino Blanco at YouTube) Over in Mormonland, they must think of the founder of Californians Against Hate as some kind of Great Gay Satan. Lock up the wives and children. Here comes Fred Karger!! Karger was nominated recently at a popular Mormon blog in a poll [...]

On 16 December 2009, the New York Times Magazine ran a piece on the Chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, Robert P George. The Times piece lauded George as the intellectual force behind the Manhattan Declaration, a document signed by scores of radical religious right leaders and Catholic bishops. The Manhattan Declaration was nothing [...]

Proposition 8 Documentary To Debut At Sundance (video: ChinoBlanco at YouTube) Immediately after it was announced that Reed Cowan’s film detailing the Mormon’s meddling in California’s Proposition 8 would premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, a website was thrown up calling for a boycott. Nancy Van Valkenburg, writing at The Standard, filed this report: [...]

If you’re thinking about making a holiday donation to the American Civil Liberties Union, don’t. The ACLU has come down on the side of the radical religious reich and the phony-baloney preservers of traditional false-witness bearing. This morning we learn the ACLU thinks the Yes on H8 crowd should not have to comply with Chief [...]

Bad news Thursday morning for the National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown. Jonathan Wayne, Executive Director of the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices, announced the commission is “eager” to proceed with their investigation into the role played by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in the state’s election held [...]

Whoa! Ain’t this a kick in the pants? It seems the National Organization for Opposite Marriage has had some second thoughts about its predacious relationship with the former Miss California, Carrie Prejean. Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown once lavished opulent praise upon Prejean, calling her “the future of our movement, and the future of America.” [...]

One year ago, by a slim majority vote, the State of California enshrined religion-biased bigotry in its constitution, and, for the first time in history, a civil right that had been legally granted was taken away (all photos, Mike Tidmus, fair use encouraged, larger sizes available) Last night, San Diegans gathered to mark the first [...]