Mayor Margie Rice: Knowing Atheists Exist Makes Me Sick

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The Orange County Coalition for Reason has put up a billboard in Orange County and it's one of the more innocuous ones: "Don't Believe in God? You are not alone." As we have seen elsewhere, though, even the mildest expression of atheism or support for atheists is too much for some Christians. Mayor Margie Rice, for example, is only grudgingly willing to let the billboard exist and is actually made ill at the thought of atheists advertising in her community.

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"That billboard is going to turn my stomach every time I drive by," she said. "But there is not much I can do about it. I guess it's fine to make a statement, but if I could help it, I would not allow it."

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So Margie Rice gets ill every time she is confronted with the knowledge that there are atheists in her community and, what's more, that these atheists don't have the decency to stay in the closet! What a wonderful political and community leader she is -- just the sort of Christian who helps give all Christians a bad name. She's basically saying that atheists aren't welcome in Orange County and that she doesn't regard them as equal citizens. Neither atheists nor secularists nor anyone who truly cares about equality should ever vote for or support Margie Rice.

http://atheism.about.com/b/2011/05/16/mayor-margie-rice-knowing-atheists-exist-makes-me-sick.htm


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