This is what censorship looks like
One week after being put up in Rancho Cucamonga, California, the Imagine No Religion billboard, shown to the left, by the Freedom From Religion Foundation has been taken down. It would be one thing if the company who owned the billboard had taken it down on their own.
However, it’s another thing when the company does so after city hall asks if there’s a way to get it removed.
A billboard with the message “Imagine No Religion” is no more.
Sign company General Outdoor removed the sign by the Freedom From Religion Foundation on Thursday after it received a request by the city to do so.
According to Redevelopment Director Linda Daniels, City Hall had received 90 calls of complaint since Wednesday.
“We contacted the sign company and asked if there was a way to get it removed,” Daniels said.
This is the first time the sign has been removed since the campaign started and I think it’s pretty obvious that the sign would still be up if the local government had not gotten involved.
If you’d like to send a complaint (a polite one, of course) you can send it from this page on Atheists United. The FFRF has issued a statement and has also put up the address of the billboard company if you’d like to send a complaint to them also.
wow. talk about separation of church and state, huh? some people might think “so what? its just ONE billboard.” well sure, its just one billboard now, maybe another billboard later, a TV ad being taken off the air, but then the next thing you know, no atheist can voice their opinion ever. I fully support you Karen.
I wonder how many complaints it would take to get one of those 10 Commandments billboards taken down? Actually, that would be one way to prove that the city was wrong. Have 90 people make complaints about a Religious billboard and see if they ask the advertiser to take it down.