Mike Tidmus

San Diego’s slimiest theofascist, Pastor Jim Garlow, has partnered-up with the thrice-traditionally-married serial adulterer and probable GOP candidate for the US Presidency, Newt Gingrich. In fact, Garlow is serving as President of Gingrich’s Renewing American Leadership. I think the last time I posted a video clip of the rabidly anti-gay Pastor Garlow, he was explaining [...]

Still from Chuck Colson’s Civil Disobedience and Christians, a YouTube video Radical cleric Chuck Colson, the convicted Watergate felon and advocate of domestic terrorism who proposed firebombing the Brookings Institute and dropping acid in anti-Nixon (Colson’s boss) commentator Jack Anderson’s coffee, is threatening civil disobedience if he and NOM founder, Robert George, can’t turn the [...]

“For years now a culture war has raged between liberal rationalists and religious dogmatists over whether homosexuality should be treated equally by civil law. Having lost ground in recent years as young people grow up in a world far more familiar with the banalities of what it really means to be gay, the right wing [...]

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 [...]

Senators team with religious right on reform obstruction (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) The mustachioed bobblehead leading the Family Research Council’s anti-healthcare-reform freakshow is Lou Engle. Bruce Wilson, writing at Talk to Action, has a piece up on Engle, who Wilson suggests is “the Republican Party’s new spiritual guru.” In GOP’s New Prayer Guru Says [...]

Reporter Nell McCafferty lashes out at a Catholic archbishop and his cronies (video: TV3 Ireland, via PardoDub at YouTube) Give’m Hell, Nell! From TV3 Ireland: Not only were dozens of priests abusing hundreds of children in the Archdiocese of Dublin over five decades, their superiors were either turning a blind eye or conspiring to cover [...]

O’Reilly and Coulter embrace faith-based fascism (video: Media Matters for America) Yes, indeedy! Coulter’s book — each and every one of them for that matter — and the Manhattan Declaration have everything in common. They’re both steaming piles of merde intended to pave the way for ChristoFascism, which just loudly knock-knocked on America’s door, as Sinclair [...]

Planet of the jihadists (graphic: from deep in the Tidmus Archives) [ updated: see below ] Laurie Goodstein, writing at The New York Times, alerts us to this latest bit of hysteria from the radical religious right. They’re apparently experiencing some kind of collective Howard Beale moment — as in they’re mad as Hell and they’re [...]