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atheist adds pulled from busses

Posted: August 7th, 2009, 2:21 am
by RamboPreacher
http://www.kcci.com/cnn-news/20298174/detail.html
interesting.
Atheist advertising signs on Des Moines Area Regional Transit buses that created a storm of controversy when they first went up on Aug. 1 have been taken down.

Officials with DART said the signs were not supposed to be on the buses in the first place.

Posted: August 7th, 2009, 2:29 am
by Full Quiver
Their message doesn't really scare me but either way I must ask, isn't this censorship? If they pay for advertising shouldn't they have their ad displayed especially if churches can make use of this media?

Posted: August 7th, 2009, 2:55 am
by RamboPreacher
Full Quiver wrote:Their message doesn't really scare me but either way I must ask, isn't this censorship? If they pay for advertising shouldn't they have their ad displayed especially if churches can make use of this media?
maybe (and their message is a non-issue for me as well), but when it is on a bus like that, it intimates that the driver (at least) and those passengers on the bus agree with it's presentation.

I understand (outside of the article, since it is where I live), that not only were passengers declining to ride, there were drivers refusing to drive those busses, even when their job-security was threatened.

Posted: August 7th, 2009, 3:47 am
by soulsearcher
Oopsy, DART! Although I personally LOVE the action taken, this could very well come back and bite them (DART) in the big bus behind. I'm suprised this hasn't received national news coverage.