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Do You Think Atheists Should be Able to Advertise on Public Transportation?
KTBB Listeners and KETK Viewers Respond to todays: Question of The Day.
July 30, 2009 - 7:29am
Tyler—
East Texans sound-off about an Indiana town's decision to allow Atheists to advertise on city buses.
Public advocacy of religious ideals, whether they be, atheistic or theistic, should not be allowed. Even though the advertisements themselves are not publicly funded, the fact remains that it is being displayed in the realm of a public structure. I am an atheist, and I see these advertisements as no better than someone buying a 10 commandments statue and placing it in a court house. The law should apply to all groups equally. If there are Christian advertisements on public buses, they should be taken down. If that's the case, atheists just need to recall that two wrongs don't make a right.
Someone questioned the point of the ads since atheists don't have a church or anything like that. The point of the ads are to appeal to the atheists who have felt alienated by society. We are among a minority that gets scoffed at for not talking to our food before we eat it, or symbolically eating the body and drinking the blood of our super hero. It's just a reminder saying "Hey, you're not alone" which is a nice reminder to have, but all the same, I don't think it has a place in a public institution.
Joseph McCullough
2 weeks agoBad idea.
There would be so much graffiti
and defacing the ads that the city would go broke trying to keep up with it.
who cares
8 months agoYES!
john
8 months agoMy friends are you going blind or just turning your head away from the subject?Every day thay let a little bit more slip on tv.Now a lot of people that use to would have said oh my goodness did you see those two men kissing on tv?Thay have been brain washed into thinking it is just a normal thing in this life.Well I am here to tell you that it is still as wrong as letting any atheists speak out in a nation that has been run on the power of our all mighty god!we are in the last days.I dont care what you say.this world is moving into a satanic hole and people everyday are being given a chance to save there souls before Crist return.I would hate to go to bed tonight saying I was atheists.
ted
8 months agoAren't there enough ads that most people don't care to see? I don't care who advertises on public transportation, because it seems like we're inundated with advertising 24/7. There are so many ads everywhere that I hardly pay attention to any of them anyway. Too many trees to see the forest.
Joe
8 months agoGive them their freedom of speech when we get ours back and we can post "God created Man in His own image" along with the ten commandments on busses billboards public places and in schools!
Karen
8 months agoOf course they should. Just like churches, mosques, car companies, cereal companies and life insurance businesses can.
Why is this even a question?
Kenny
8 months agoSure, Just as long as Christians can put the Ten Commandments beside or above their ad, and in any other public place! Why should they have a priviledge that Christians are denied?
Karen
8 months agoSure, why not?
This a nation that allows you to express whatever religious views you may have.
I'm assuming whatever they want to advertise is not obscene or vulgar and if they decide to pay for advertisement, we should let them.
We cannot prevent them from advertising just because we don't like their views.
Mr. P
8 months agoNo matter how the majority feels.........this is America.....freedom of speech stands before our opinions. I for one, am opposed. Just to clarify things...
Mickie
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