Tag Archives: Andrew Sullivan

The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-22: U.S. Supreme Court sells out democracy to highest corporate bidders

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 21 January 2010
The news that greeted me this morning: the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 activist decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which further extended the legal fiction that corporations are “persons” by granting their extremely deep special interest pockets pretty much unlimited “free speech” in campaign advertising. This is one I’ve been watching.  Democracy in [...]
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Christianist, defined

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 23 June 2009
I first used this term in the post “The new Carrie Prejean?” I’m using often enough that it seems helpful to break the definition I used there out into a separate post. Christianist is a term I first heard from Atlantic Monthly blogger Andrew Sullivan — a useful term that to me conveys not Christiantity as [...]
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The new Carrie Prejean?

By Mel | Published: Monday, 15 June 2009
In what looks like another of last Tuesday's ploys by Prevo & company, an obvious attempt to bait LGBT people & our allies into turning the newly-crowned Mrs. Alaska United States® into another Carrie Prejean, martyr of the religious right.
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