Mike Tidmus

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Poor oppressed Christian Gary Bauer: “Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable.” Only, that’s total bullshit. Wake me when we start beheading [...]

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 [...]

No, Alveda King, Our Founders Did Not Put “God” On Our Money (video: ChrisRodda2 at YouTube) “They [the founders] had enough sense to put on the back of that money ‘In God We Trust.’ You can’t eat a piece of bread in America without remembering that you have to trust God to get it.” — [...]

Can anyone explain why this message so intimidates the theists? (photo: The Freedom from religion Foundation) Well, quelle frickin’ surprise! The bigots are at it again. A Watertown, Wisconsin billboard placed by the Freedom from Religion Foundation has been hit by vandals with yellow paint — probably extracted from whatever’s left of their spines. Here’s [...]

“Where are the other high-profile conservatives and Republicans who recognize what’s happening here? Am I the only one willing to stand up for marriage as an institution of one man and one woman? Am I the only one willing to stand up for a U.S. military unencumbered by perverse social experiments? Am I the only [...]

That’s Gay Salutes: Focus on the Family (video: Current TV at YouTube) Current: This week, Bryan Safi salutes Focus on the Family for making sure children aren’t tricked into giving up homophobia as they head back to school. Even pictures of cute animals aren’t safe anymore! For more Bryan, tune in to infoMania on Thursdays [...]

The Beckoning (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) Being on the West Coast, I had time to catch Glenn Beck’s performance before heading down to the Padres game. I was truly blow away by Beck’s speech. Well, blown away by the fact that the Fox News entertainer’s speech sounded like it had been cobbled together by [...]