I started using the term "Texas Taliban" to refer to that alarming brand of Texas politicos who want to make the law of their God the law of the land. (The Texas Taliban suffered a big defeat on biology textbooks last week, as noted in an earlier posting.) But it turns out that the label predates me (sigh). For example, it is used here in discussing Texas Governor Perry's flagrant violation of constitutional requirements regarding school prayer; it appears to have first been used in a column by Ellen Goodman about Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court case striking down the Texas sodomy law; in a usage that postdates mine, it is used here to describe the textbook censors whom readers of this blog know well; the Texas Observer used the phrase to describe conservative evangelicals in San Antonio here; it gets a completely different usage at this anti-Bush site and in a similar way in this column.
There's nothing like a good alliteration...
Recent Comments