{"id":5864,"date":"2012-01-11T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2012-01-11T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:18:59","slug":"help-with-the-minnesota-atheist-billboard-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/help-with-the-minnesota-atheist-billboard-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Help with the Minnesota Atheist Billboard Campaign!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know about the billboards and the bus ads: Christian groups are very good at getting anti-choice billboards, or Jesus Luvs U bus ads, or whatever, plastered round the countryside. They can raise the money, and no one seems to mind or stand in their way (as it should be, I suppose). Some of the billboard companies, however, are actually Christian Run, so the Christian groups are getting fantastic discounts and other forms of extra help. That seems a bit unfair to me. <\/p>\n

But then, when a secular, atheist, or humanist group tries to put up one measly billboard or a couple of ads on bus-sides, everybody freaks out, wrenches are thrown into the works, and there’s a big fight. <\/p>\n

And, I know you’ve been watching this and waiting for your opportunity to get into the ring! <\/p>\n

Minnesota Atheists, with the help of American Athesits, is putting up a billboard. “The purpose of the billboard is to advertise our organization, encourage local atheists to join, and offer a pithy, cogent argument that most atheists can support.” This is the proposed design at the time I wrote this post: <\/p>\n

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Here is the current version of the billboard as of Jan. 12th<\/p>\n

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The fundraising is going pretty well, but they need a little more. Please click here and donate!!! <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know about the billboards and the bus ads: Christian groups are very good at getting anti-choice billboards, or Jesus Luvs U bus ads, or whatever, plastered round the countryside. They can raise the money, and no one seems to mind or stand in their way (as it should be, I suppose). Some of the … Continue reading Help with the Minnesota Atheist Billboard Campaign!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1wA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}