Here it is.

Here is the full story from Justin Vacula’s blog.

On 1/30/12, I proposed an idea inspired by Richard Wade writing for the Friendly Atheist blog and atheist activist Carl Silverman to run a really, really, really inoffensive bus advertisement. Many atheist advertisement campaigns have been considered ‘offensive’ by religious individuals and some atheists, including myself, have wondered what exactly offended. Was is the mere fact that atheists making their presence known offensive to religious people? Perhaps the word “atheist” offends people? To ‘test’ this and to advertise the NEPA Freethought Society — a local community group of non-theists in Northeastern PA — and American Atheists, I contacted the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS) with serious intentions to run the bus ad you can see above.

After announcing my idea, various persons have stepped forward to donate money to make these ads a reality, but I had told persons that it would be best to wait for the bus company — which receives county, state, and federal funding — to confirm whether they would run the ads. I was told that the board of directors for COLTS needed to meet and decide whether they would run the ad…and after a long wait of 15 days, COLTS refused the ad although this meeting certainly wasn’t public if it even happened at all because meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month.

Jim Smith, the advertising contact at COLTS, said that the reason for refusal — appealing to the very questionable and vague advertising policy of COLTS — was that COLTS does not accept ads which could be deemed controversial or otherwise spark public debate.

Funny, that is. COLTS runs “God Bless America” on their scrolling tickers which are supposed to relay route information and has also run an ad saying “Consider adoption…it works!” Interestingly enough, the “Consider adoption…it works!” ad has been REMOVED from COLTS’ website (you can, though, see a picture of it below); the ad was previously in the gallery of sample ads, but it is no longer there. An ad for “Old Forge News” — an overtly political site containing links to Holocaust denialist websites and white supremacist information — had also appeared on COLTS’ buses.

When a governmental entity offers ad space on buses, it can’t discriminate or otherwise ‘pick and choose’ the messages they like and do not like. My “Atheists.” ad is intentionally inoffensive and with a content-free message (I even removed the clouds). COLTS needs to reconsider their decision and stand up for free speech that they should be offering. Atheists should be allowed the same opportunities to advertise just like everyone else.

American Atheists’ Pennsylvania State Director, Ernest Perce V, has sent a letter to COLTS (published on American Atheists’ “No God Blog”) demanding that they allow our ads and stop discriminating. View it here. The NEPA Freethought Society, an affiliate of American Atheists, is happy to work with American Atheists in this very obvious case of discriminate toward atheists and a violation of the first amendment. We’re not giving up by any means. These bus ads shall be a reality no matter how long it takes to make that happen.

via the Naked Pastor.

Did you ever get this feeling?

“Here’s the thing: It’s a right, it’s not a privilege, its a right.  With rights come responsibilities. The more that people abuse our rights, the more likely that we’re going to loose them.”

It’s not a privilege?  Huh?  Correct!  It is a right.  A right I want to have.

The more you abuse our rights….  how does one “abuse” a right?  Can I say what I want or not?

is he saying that if you actually use your right to free speech you will lose it?

Hey, Mr. Mark Martin (the judge) just how are we going take  those rights?  Are you going to take them away?  It that why you ruled the way that you did?  You thought the atheist went too far (as you stated) so you threw out the case?  Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!

I know…. too many Santorum posts lately.  But I just could not pass up on this video!

Feb 27, 2012

Feb 23, 2012

via One Good Move (one of my all time favorite blogs – please go check it out!)

Post by Darrel

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Well who gives a shit what Sanatorium thinks?

We know Jefferson understood the separation to be a “wall,” as he specifically said, but let’s ask Madison:

MARCH 2, 1819
“The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the TOTAL SEPARATION of the church from the State.”
–Source: Letter to Robert Walsh from James Madison. March 2, 1819.

Also:
“Every new and successful example, therefore, of a PERFECT SEPARATION between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together . . .”
–Letter to Edward Livingston from James Madison, July 10, 1822.

Also:
“STRONGLY GUARDED as is the separation between religion and Gov’t in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents’ already furnished in their short history…” –Source: Madison’s Detached Memoranda.

So Madison wanted “total separation,” a “perfect separation” and said this separation was “strongly guarded” in order to keep “Ecclesiastical Bodies” from “encroaching.” He was referring to the Establishment Clause. So Kennedy’s “total separation of church and state” echoes Madison’s. We see once again that Santorum doesn’t know WTF he is talking about.

For an exposition of a bunch of lies this idiot just passed along about Denmark, see this clip:

His lips are moving!

Via yahoo news.

WASHINGTON – Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Sunday that he doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state, adding that he was sickened by John F. Kennedy’s assurances to Baptist ministers 52 years ago that he would not impose his Catholic faith on them.

and….

He’s been unapologetic about some of his more controversial remarks, even reiterating Sunday his past remarks that Kennedy’s 1960 speech in Houston made “me want to throw up.”

Guess what is making me sick?

“I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,” Santorum, a devout Catholic, said in an interview from Michigan on ABC’s “This Week.”

Barf….  He took JFK’s quote and turned it around.

“The First Amendment means the free exercise of religion and that means bringing people and their faith into the public square.”

Thomas Jefferson just spun in his grave!  This is NOT what it means.  It is the exact opposite.  People can have what ever religion (or lack of religion) that they want but, it is to stay out of the government.

Here is Rick

Here is JFK…

Feb 23, 2012