Vandals "Under God" to be erased from North Carolina billboard

[Ed Barrow]

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The “Under God” spray-painted by vandals onto an atheist billboard on Billy Graham Parkway over the weekend won’t be erased until just before July 4, a spokesman for Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics said Monday.

That’s how long it will take the billboard company to restore the sign, which featured an American flag background and quoted the original phrase from the Pledge of Allegiance – “One Nation indivisible” – before “under God” was inserted after “one nation” in 1954.

“They have to print an entirely new vinyl and then schedule a crane,” said William Warren. He added that his group has reported the vandalism to Charlotte police and spoken with a nearby Shell station about letting investigators inspect video from security cameras, in hopes of identifying those who defaced the billboard.

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A state coalition of atheist, agnostic and freethinker groups put up the same billboard in five other cities in North Carolina. None of those had been defaced as of Monday morning, Warren said.



http://www.thestate.com/2010/06/29/1355962/vandals-under-god-to-be-erased.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. dimwitted fundies....