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Ill. Rep. Monique Davis: it's dangerous for children to know atheists exist, orders atheist to stop testifying

April 8, 2008 6:27pm

I've seen her traditional contact info posted a few times already, but hadn't seen her email address yet. Here it is: mdavis@hdsmail.state.il.us

As a resident of Illinois, I am disgusted that a hate-mongering bigot like Monique D. Davis is allowed to speak publicly after this episode. If she believes in hell, she must really want to go there.

If she thinks she is divinely entitled to discriminate and spew hate based on religious beliefs, she has no business holding a public office. Let's all email her and talk about how her remarks go against the beliefs of her own United Church of Christ! Let's fill her inbox with a unified call for her resignation! And, by all means necessary, let's get this bigot out of office and away from anyone who might imitate or adopt her truly distorted and psychotic view of reality.

To that end, we might even email Davis' peers in the Illinois Legislature and ask them to urge her to resign. Their emails are on the same page where I found hers: http://www.iavat.org/legislator/contact/legiscontacts.asp

Shepard Fairey's Obama poster

February 1, 2008 11:31am

Fairey's just making a buck off the Obama love-fest.

What I want to know is, why doesn't Fairey cite the photographer whose work was clearly co-opted for this print?

Because he's just making a buck. It's what he's always done. And he never gives appropriate credit to the sources he traces or stencils over. Did the estate of André René Roussimoff (Andre the Giant) see a dime from all the Obey merchandise? No.

Street art fans love to complain about corporate marketers co-opting graf styles, but they overlook the fact that guys like Fairey are usually tracing someone else's work and selling it as their own.

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