"One Nation Indivisible" Atheist billboard defaced ....

[defendandprotect]

Atheist billboard gets defaced on NC's Billy Graham Parkway

Tue Jun 29, 3:45 pm ET

Liz Goodwin/Yahoo News

Unknown vandals unhappy about an atheist billboard in Charlotte, North Carolina scrawled "Under God" in spray paint under the advertisement's message, the city's atheist association discovered Monday.The message will remain in place until after July 4th, the group reports, which is the soonest that workers can furnish a fresh billboard image. Here's how the vandalized billboard now looks:

The billboard reads, "One Nation Indivisible," which is the phrase preceding the 1954 insertion of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, reports The Charlotte Observer's Tim Funk. The billboard was erected on the Billy Graham Parkway--named for the state's famous evangelical preacher--last week.

Similar ads have gone up up in Asheville, Greensboro, Wilmington, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem as a Fourth of July project by the area's atheist association. The group has filed a police report and will replace the billboard.

“It was done by one or two people off on their own who decided their only recourse was
vandalism rather than having a conversation,” spokesman for Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics William Warren said. “It does show how needed our message is. As atheists, we want to let people know we exist and that there’s a community here.” Warren told the paper when the sign first went up that its location on the Graham parkway wasn't intended as a rebuke to the preacher.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100629/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2936_3

[amborin]

1. K&R

[csziggy]

2. Spray paint a big red cricle with a slash across it over "god"

Quick, and will still get the message across.

[Chef Eric]

3. Pretty sad that truthophobes feel the need to vandalize. nt

[lunasun]

4. Just do'in the Lord's work tht's all....