Mike Tidmus

Gasp. This man of the cloth’s been charged with “an eight-count indictment, including charges of rape, incest, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.” Via Barry Duke, at The Freethinker, here’s the low-down on this low-life for the lord … NY pastor, accused of rape and incest, mortgages his church to pay his [...]

Shenandoah Baptist Church’s Pastor Jeff Owens: Burn and shoot fags! (video: Joe Jervis at Vimeo) [ updated: see below ] According to Pastor Jeff Owens‘ own website: Pastor Owens is ‘a soulwinner, fervent preacher, and takes an uncompromising stand against sin; but the hallmark quality of Dr. Owens is his genuine love and concern for [...]

Move over, Porno Pete. Homo-hating, gay porn aficionados around the globe have a new reigning diva. Martin Ssempa is his name and, apparently, scatological fixation is his game. The poo-obsessed Ugandan pastor first graced this blog back in connection with pop-pastor Rick Warren’s duplicitous claims about his involvement with AIDS in Uganda — specifically Ssempa [...]

Here’s your Saturday morning giggle courtesy of christianist nut-job Gary Cass. Cass’ signature brand of paranoid insanity is not unfamiliar to regular readers in these here parts, but he who organized a shitload of like-minded, gay-hating fundie pastors, including San Diego’s own Jim Garlow, to preach in Washington DC about the sheer fabulousness of executing the [...]

If you’re an anti-gay pastor watcher like me, you’re well aware that San Diego area radical clerics Miles McPherson and Jim Garlow relish both the spotlight and the media attention that comes hand-in-hand with being two of California’s better known anti-LGBT advocates. When he’s not mentoring young Christians like former beauty queen turned soft-porn celebrity Carrie [...]

Shameful new low for Pat Robertson (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) The leading dim bulb of the conservative christianist right showed his true colors yesterday, when the Reverend Pat Robertson took a swing, not at they gays, nor at the Democrats, nor the President, but, rather, at the victims of the natural devastation that struck [...]

Pat Robertson Blames Haiti Earthquake on “Pact With the Devil” (video: RightWingWatchDotOrg at YouTube) In the face of the horrific tragedy in Haiti — the impoverished island nation heavily damaged by a catastrophic earthquake, possibly 100,000 people dead according to a CNN report, the capitol flattened, hospitals gone — Right Wing Watch reports that the Reverend [...]

Trailer for Richard Brooks’ 1960 film Elmer Gantry (video: bigeezy at YouTube) Sinclair Lewis, who penned the 1927 novel upon which the multi-award-winning film was based, didn’t miss the mark in his critique of fundamentalist itinerant preachers, self-anointed pop-pastors and wannabe messiahs with ulterior motives. Lewis also left us with the prophetic warning: “When facism [...]

Another Evangelical Christian minister has been handed his legal comeuppance. From Texarkana, Arkansas, CBS News has the details on the verdict in the trial of cult-leader Tony Alamo: (AP) Evangelist Tony Alamo was sentenced Friday to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across state lines for sex, effectively punishing him for the rest of [...]

[ updated: see below ] Barry Duke, writing at Great Britain’s Freethinker, is astonished by the degree of hatred toward LGBT Americans espoused by elements of the radical religious right here in the Land of the Free. Here’s a taste from his piece Fry in hell, faggots!: JUST when I thought I had a handle [...]

The hidden, demonic subtext contained in a bookstore sign in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood revealed (photo: mine) Just when you thought you’d heard it all from the completely and utterly bonkers Pat Robertson and his loony-tunes Christian Broadcasting Network, Americans United for Separation of Church and State points to the latest from America’s Christian right: In [...]

If you’ve been following along, you’re undoubtedly aware that nothing tickles the fundies more than the fact that they imagine the invisible dude in the sky has given them a special dispensation from that whole not-bearing-false-witness thing. From third-string ex-con fibbers like James Hartline to professional prevaricators like Tony Perkins to outlandish lying loons like [...]

Folks, just ignore that part where it says “not to be taken internally”  (graphic: mine, from the Tidmus archives) Ed Brayton has honored televangelist Pat Robertson with his Dumbass Quote of the Day award for this nonsense from Reverend Pat in response to the US Department of Homeland Security’s assertion that, following the election of [...]

Rob Boston, writing at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, takes the radical religious right to task for its false-witness-bearing against pending legislation that would include sexual orientation in a hate crimes bill that is expected to be debated in Congress in the next week or so: Pastors In Prison?: Religious Right Spreads [...]

Remember Dr Gary Cass of the kooky Christian Anti-Defamation Commission? Back around the beginning of the year, Cass warned that President Obama’s inauguration involved so many ‘mos — ‘mo marching bands, ‘mo balls, ‘mo choirs, ‘mo bishops — that he felt the event should be Rated P for Perverse.  Then Cass reached into some orifice and pulled out his Top Ten [...]