Petitioning

Petitioning for an election and counting the petition AS the election are two very different things.

Matthew Yglesias » Economists for an Employee Free Choice Act 2009

Petitioning emerged as the perfect form of protest for the age of obesity, illiteracy and online rage, an activity not unlike prayer in that it can be done in a recumbent position and makes its practitioners feel better, even as they recognise, deep down, that no one is listening: "Oh Lord, grant that speed cameras be cast into outer darkness."

Let's all join in not signing up to this idea of e-petitions | Catherine Bennett 2011

As Newton and Collins elaborate: "Petitioning" has come to signify any nonviolent, legal means of encouraging or disapproving government action, whether directed to the judicial, executive or legislative branch.

John W. Whitehead: Harold Hodge v. SCOTUS: Has the First Amendment Become an Exercise in Futility? John W. Whitehead 2012

Petitioning for an election and counting the petition AS the election are two very different things.

Matthew Yglesias » Economists for an Employee Free Choice Act 2009

As Newton and Collins elaborate: "Petitioning" has come to signify any nonviolent, legal means of encouraging or disapproving government action, whether directed to the judicial, executive or legislative branch.

John W. Whitehead: Harold Hodge v. SCOTUS: Has the First Amendment Become an Exercise in Futility? John W. Whitehead 2012

As Newton and Collins elaborate: "Petitioning" has come to signify any nonviolent, legal means of encouraging or disapproving government action, whether directed to the judicial, executive or legislative branch.

John W. Whitehead: Harold Hodge v. SCOTUS: Has the First Amendment Become an Exercise in Futility? John W. Whitehead 2012

Petitioning Howard Schultz to not speak, characterizing Willow Creek as persecuting LGBT's Willow is arguably the most influential church in the U.S. and one that is far more moderate than many evangelical churches and then succeeding at seeing Schultz back out of speaking at the conference will serve to further alienate moderate evangelicals and actually hurt the LGBT cause.

Adam Hamilton: When LGBT Supporters Get It Wrong Adam Hamilton 2011

Petitioning the Almighty is not lobbying Congress.

Sister Mary Ann Walsh: Pew Religious Advocacy Report: Why Comparing Apples And Oranges Leads To Lemons Sister Mary Ann Walsh 2011

Petitioning Howard Schultz to not speak, characterizing Willow Creek as persecuting LGBT's Willow is arguably the most influential church in the U.S. and one that is far more moderate than many evangelical churches and then succeeding at seeing Schultz back out of speaking at the conference will serve to further alienate moderate evangelicals and actually hurt the LGBT cause.

Adam Hamilton: When LGBT Supporters Get It Wrong Adam Hamilton 2011

As Newton and Collins elaborate: "Petitioning" has come to signify any nonviolent, legal means of encouraging or disapproving government action, whether directed to the judicial, executive or legislative branch.

John W. Whitehead: Harold Hodge v. SCOTUS: Has the First Amendment Become an Exercise in Futility? John W. Whitehead 2012