Mike Tidmus

“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 [...]

I’d Rather Die Than Spoon With a Gay Soldier (video: Right Wing Watch at YouTube) Right Wing Watch: Tony Perkins and Sgt. Benjamin Ratliff claim that allowing gay soldiers in the military will cause a dilemma for other soldiers who don’t want to spoon with them in life-threatening situations. This allegedly-hetero Christian con spends more [...]

Lt Dan Choi describes the pain and emotion following his discharge from the army for violating Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Dan Choi‘s discharge is a disgrace and dishonors the US military. Shame on President Obama for kowtowing to the gay-hating extremists of the radical religious right and to his imaginary [...]

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council debates political commentator Robert Zimmerman (video: iloveJesus420 at YouTube) Watch the radical religious reich’s Tony Perkins, Grand Imperial Wizard of the Fundie Research Council, as he makes shit up and pulls statistics out of his sanctimonious behind to support his position against the American military’s ludicrous Don’t Ask, [...]

“If we were asking questions about any other identity group — Would your wife mind living on post next to a Chinese family?, Would you take orders from a Baptist officer?, Would you mind serving alongside an African American? — these kinds of questions make those groups second-class citizens.” — Aaron Belkin, Director of the [...]

The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell survey that the Pentagon has asked 400,000 active-duty and reserve military personnel to respond to has been released and can be found online. Here are a couple of typical questions: If Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is repealed and you are working with a Service member in your immediate unit who [...]

Serve your country. Be gay and say ‘fuck you’ to the armed forces. The peace movement needs you (graphic: Mr Fish at TruthDig)

“RESOLVED, That the messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Orlando, Florida, June 15-16, 2010, affirm the Bible’s declaration that homosexual behavior is intrinsically disordered and sinful, and we also affirm the Bible’s promise of forgiveness, change, and eternal life to all sinners (including those engaged in homosexual sin) who repent of sin and [...]

The radical religious right has a single go-to rabbi on gay civil rights issues, and Rabbi Yehuda Levin is fierce and, it appears, somewhat poetic: “The next slice of the salami – the koshering of volitional homosexual activity, along with all aspects of the homosexual culture, throughout the US Military — constitutes a rebellion against [...]

Yuma mayor denigrates gay troops (video: Think Progress, via YonH39 at YouTube) … why should anybody care what this backwater bigot thinks? Yuma, Arizona Mayor Al Krieger: I cannot believe that a bunch of lacy-drawered, limp-wristed people could do what those men have done in the past. [ ... ] I’m reluctant to compare myself [...]

“Oh, I believe you can change how people behave sexually, and this policy change won’t change that at all. Of course, forcing people to act sexually in ways which bring them no joy is also a great way to cause deep misery. I just look at all the tightly puckered smarmy jiveweasels inhabiting right wing [...]

Religious liberty, Tony Perkins? Puh-leeze! My Take: Ending ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ would undermine religious liberty religion.blogs.cnn.com Some people think allowing open homosexuality in the military means nothing more than opening a door that was previously closed. It means much more than that. It would mean simultaneously ushering out the back door anyone who disapproves [...]

Executive Order 9981 (graphic: Wikipedia)

The fairly completely unbalanced Porno Pete LaBarbera is having a conniption because a certain bad bad Politico writer didn’t bother to seek out any crybaby Christian comments from professional anti-gays, like for instance, um … er … uhh … well, Porno Pete LaBarbera. Biased Politico Article Reports House Passage of ‘Provisional Repeal’ of Military Gay [...]

Anti-gay hatred evident in DADT repeal opposition (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and activist and author Dan Savage dissect the disgusting load of dung the Christian reich has pulled out of its collective ass and thrown at gay Americans in their futile attempt to defeat the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, [...]