Mike Tidmus

Mark Hefflinger, writing at Karen Ocamb‘s exceptionally fine news blog — LGBT POV, has deftly refuted the various half-baked memes, lurid fantasies and outright falsehoods about cruelty and violence allegedly perpetrated by the mean old gays against those poor oppressed Christians who klanned up in a concerted effort to eliminate and/or prevent gay rights while [...]

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 [...]

Check out Dominic Holden‘s Seattle Stranger rundown on yesterday’s SCOTUS decision that went against those who would sign to take away the rights of their fellow citizens and then hide like the kind of cowering cowards that would do that kind of thing. R-71 Case: Supreme Court Rules Petitions Are Public | Slog | The [...]

The anti-marriage-equality Chicken Littles of the religious reich are in court trying to hide behind the Supreme Court’s long black skirts: James Bopp Jr., a lawyer for Protect Marriage Washington, argued that those who signed the petition for Referendum 71 faced harassment and intimidation from gay rights groups if their names were released and maintained [...]

Washington: Who we are: Approve Referendum 71 is the campaign to preserve domestic partnerships in Washington State. By voting to approve, voters retain the domestic partnership laws that were passed during this year’s legislative session, including using sick leave to care for a partner, adoption rights, insurance rights, and more. What we need: We need [...]

(Approve Referendum 71 – Washington Families Standing Together) Today a court in Maine will rule on whether the New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and it’s co-complainant, the Washington DC-based American Principles in Action (AIPA), can continue violating the state’s campaign transparency laws. Flagrantly disobeying and attempting the circumvent these laws to achieve their [...]

(graphic: via The Stranger) If you have a pulse you’re undoubtedly aware that Protect Marriage in Washington state got a hand up in their smarmy attack on the state’s domestic partnership law from the US Supreme Court, which intervened to allow petition signers in the state to hate on the gays and still enjoy the [...]

Which kind of Christian are you? Vote No on Prop One (video: Joe the ‘Mo Productions at YouTube) With marriage equality and domestic partnerships at risk in Maine and Washington respectively (and eventually in some other 28 states if Maggie and Brian and their Mormon and Catholic co-conspirators have anything to say about it), it’s [...]