Mike Tidmus

Little wonder that the unfair and radically unbalanced Porno Pete has marshalled his fellow gay-hating fundies to turn on the fairer and more balanced Warren Throckmorton. After all, Throckmorton, at least, seems not to have lost his grip on reality. Here, in a piece at Salon, is Throckmorton on the relationship between Rick Warren acolyte [...]

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 [...]

Big surprise! Not. In the early aughties, Uganda was considered a model African AIDS program. Then it all went South. Suddenly, you had well-funded Ugandan Christian pastors like Martin Ssempa, with links to pop-pastor Rick Warren, burning condoms in Jesus’ name and much worse. You had the American fundies during the Bush nightmare getting their [...]

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 [...]

Kathleen Parker, writing at the Washington Post, has piece called Who will stand against Uganda’s brutal anti-gay law? Parker notes that amid the onslaught of rotten domestic news, the proposed Ugandan exterminate-they-gays bill might not get the attention it merits: Corrupt politicians count on the brevity of the American attention span, but certain items demand [...]

Jaime Kilstein Updated Gay Rights Material (video: Jaime Kilstein at YouTube) [ Warning: Colorful fucking language! ] From Jamie Kilstein: Jamie Kilstein headlining The Lakeshore Theater in Chicago yelling about bigots and gay rights. wearecitizenradio.com for tour dates, interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Janeane Garofalo, facebook twitter links and more. (tip: Ed Brayton, Dispatches [...]

Transforming Uganda (video: Bruce Wilson at Vimeo) Religious right watcher Bruce Wilson says of the video above: My new 20 minute documentary, Transforming Uganda, exposes the immense political influence in Uganda of the International Transformation Network and ideological influence of George Otis, Jr.’s Transformations videos. Featuring conference video footage, Transforming Uganda presents a radically new perspective; a little-known [...]

Rick Warren forced out of silence on Uganda (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Just in time for the holidays, last night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow pretty much roasted Rick Warren’s purpose-driven nuts by an open fire. To which all I can add is: Liar, liar pants on fire. More on the prevaricating pop-pastor: Bruce Wilson (Talk [...]

In a press release this morning, ex-gay and religious right watchdog Truth Wins Out has applauded a statement by Pastor Rick Warren condemning the pending anti-gay law in Uganda as ‘unjust’, ‘extreme’ and ‘unchristian.’ There is video at the link. Here’s the press release: TWO Praises Pastor Rick Warren for Speaking Out Against Anti-Gay Uganda [...]

Maddow and a panel discuss the Ugandan anti-gay bill and the American cons using their influence abroad to back the extermination and imprisonment of gay and lesbian people (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) Last night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow capped a week of eye-opening reports on the connections between American fundamentalist hate-preachers, the so-called ex-gay movement [...]

Maddow reveals the political ties between the Ugandan exterminate-the-gays bill and the American fundies who inspired it (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) I’d really forgotten how much watching Bush the Imbecile turns my stomach. It’s apparent that these right-wing political lackeys want to insinuate a smidgen of space between themselves and Uganda’s pending murder-the-gays bill, [...]

Uganda be kidding me (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) [ updated: see below ] MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow continues to hammer away at the gay-hating American fundamentalists involved in pushing the bill in Uganda that would criminalize being gay and provide the death penalty to people with AIDS and repeat offenders. Regular readers will recall this [...]

Rachel Maddow and Jeff Sharlet discuss the pending anti-gay bill in Uganda (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) The author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, Jeff Sharlet, and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow dig into the connections between Ugandan officials who are poised to imprison and exterminate the country’s gays and [...]

[ updated: see below ] The incursion of anti-gays into Uganda to stir up homophobia was first noted here back in early March 2009. As most readers are aware, the situation has gone from bad to worse to completely fucking nuts. Egged on by American fundamentalist Christians, the Ugandan Parliament is now poised to pass [...]

Michelle Goldberg, writing at The American Prospect, examines what are hopefully the last throes of compromise with religious conservatives on international HIV/AIDS prevention and the coming renaissance of AIDS prevention programs based on sound medical policy and the realities of human sexuality. Goldberg, the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, deftly moves [...]