Mike Tidmus

“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 [...]

The National Organization for Marriage‘s President, Brian Brown, just fired off a desperate “Urgent Action Needed!” email pleading with his flock of knuckle-dragging, Bible-banging anti-gays to “call and email the Senate today!” And tell them to “Vote No on DISCLOSE Act.” Quckly! Quckly! Why? Because if this law passes, NOM and the rest of the [...]

NOM rallies, slumber ensues (photo: The National Organization for Marriage) Crowds numbering in the tens showed up, having heard the rumor — believed to have been circulated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland — that the National Organization for Marriage rally would be featuring a sizzling hot, double-jackpots, celebrity star-studded BingoMania tournament. According to [...]

Timothy Kincaid has some excellent dirt on the National Organization of Hypocrites for Opposite Marriage. NOM has made it abundantly clear that they think their fellow “pro-family” anti-gays should be able to politically hate on and harm the gays and then be able to cower under their pointy hoods and rinso-white sheets. At the same [...]

O effin’ brother! Taking time out from their unrelenting efforts to shield child-raping Catholic priests from truth, justice and the American way, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops bishops have decided to share their infinite wisdom — based on all their many years of experience sexually uptight, unmarried celibates — about the very special uniqueness [...]

In a new piece, Mother Jones charts the rapidly accelerating descent of the National Organization for Marriage from its shadowy beginnings as a venomous bunch of Mormon money-fueled, anti-gay theocrats eager to eliminate the civil rights of their fellow citizens into a shambolic, rudderless steaming pile of stink that seems to have forgotten which direction [...]

“The shining whiteness of the bridal gown, symbolizing purity and the power that purity conveys, has been stained — or smudged, if you will — by pornography, sex before marriage, marital infidelity, divorce, abortion and, now, so-called marriages between people of the same sex. “Like the dirty oil that pours uncontrollably into the waters of [...]

Oh! My! Dog! Corporal Klinger … um … I mean Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt — the dude who put the effed-up in effed-up fundie bigot and who also happens to be the fine, upstanding Christian who’s been preying for the deaths of his enemies, including Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and Reverend Barry [...]

The National Organization for Marriage were sounding like a broken record just a few days ago with their tired old saw: Election disclosure laws do not apply to us, we’re anti-gay religious bigots Christians (repeat as necessary). Well, file this under Good News: Maggie Gallagher & Brian Brown have been kicked to the curb again [...]

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 [...]

The Maine branch of the Ratzinger Crime Family provide a lesson in Christian charity. Tom Bell, writing at the Portland Press Herald, points out that the equality-hating Catholic church has cut funds for a service agency that helped the homeless over its support for marriage equality. This would be the same Catholics that shuttered five [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, blogger John Aravosis, writing at AMERICAblog Gay, suggested Brian Camenker, the leader of MassResistance — a group the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has labeled a “hate group” — is “a few fries short of a happy meal.” Aravosis is absolutely correct. While rejected by the majority of so-called Christian conservatives, Camenker has close ties [...]

“I don’t think there is any evidence of a national backlash against gay marriage. It should be borne in mind that gay marriage is still opposed by a small majority or large plurality of Americans. But there’s not really any evidence that the numbers are getting worse; instead, they appear to be v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y getting [...]

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 [...]