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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-13: Haiti earthquake

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Today's tweets were dominated by news of yesterday's magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti, the idiotic statement about the earthquake by Christianist Pat Robertson, & the Prop 8 trial in California.
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Helping Haiti (& telling Pat Robertson to STFU)

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 13 January 2010
How can we help the people of Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday's devastating earthquake? By sending them assistance -- not by blaming them, as Christianist lackwit Pat Robertson so predictably does.
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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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