Polar Bear

I thought you might find this article and its accompanying illustration interesting.

<a href="http://madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6833&group=webcast" target="_blank">http://madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6833&group=webcast</a>

GaryP

How can a judge rule that the plaintiff's names must be public after reading those letters?

Could he sleep at night if somebody did harm to these people?

I've read that the original plaintiffs were an elderly couple. The husband has since died and the widow wanted her name secret or dropped. The FFRF dropped her name abd asked for volunteers to take her place.

Apparently there are 10 or so brave people who have stepped up to take her place! We should celebrate these courageous citizens. <img src="graemlins/notworthy.gif" border="0" alt="[Not Worthy]" />

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Splat

It's actually 22 citizens, and I second that celebration: <a href="http://www.ffrf.org/news/amended.html" target="_blank">FFR Press Reliease</a>

Every Virginia high school athiest should be supplied with a big stack of stickers with that graphic on it to put up next to all of those National Motto plaques.

CaptainDave

This thread is aptly named.

What a bunch of rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth, howling at the moon, fucking lunatics!

I add my cheer to the brave defenders who stepped foward to stand against these idiots. <img src="graemlins/notworthy.gif" border="0" alt="[Not Worthy]" />

I'll say one thing about these nuts though: They're making our job a lot easier. We won't need a media machine to expose the radical right for what it is - as long as these pre-neanderthals are willing to do it for us!

capsaicin67

I love the graphics, very clever bit of media metajamming------though it won't get seen anywhere mainstream, and if so, it's meaning will be thoroughly re-worked by Rush/Buchanan etc.

Krieger

That was great.

Rusting Car Bumper

It would be nice to have a stack os stickers with that image.

Stephen Maturin

Man, there's some seriously disturbing drivel quoted in that article. This, for example:

So much for the Free Exercise Clause, seeing as how in the first commandment Jebus and Jehovulus demand exclusivity of worship. We'll also need to incorporate a "homosexual exception" into all murder statutes since the Bible clearly commands that gays be put to death.

Then again, this is the same clown who says that not spending public money to maintain a ten commandments monument in the public park at issue amounts to taking away his religious freedom.* He also seems to think that abominations such as seat belt laws and bans on smoking in restaurants have us sliding down the slippery slope to communism. <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" /> Perhaps he's just a garden variety loud mouthed idjit who poses no real danger at all. We can only hope.

*Uh huh. And the government's refusal to pay all his food, clothing and shelter expenses constitutes a denial of his right to life.

Splat

Which is why he's supporting HR 6666 to outlaw eating pork and wearing blended fabrics.

wildernesse

AAAHHHH!! You bad, mean, EVIL atheists! I knew there was a reason that wearing a seatbelt and sitting in the non-smoking sections of restaurants felt oppressive! Your sticky little conspiratorial atheist fingers are in every freedom-loving pie, tainting it for all believers! If I hadn't read this article, I would never have known the truth—you see God is working through you, even if you don’t know/like it! BWhahahaha. Maybe you’ll be more in favor of erecting monuments to GOD when some theist volunteers to predict the flood that will threaten your town! Just wait and see—meanwhile I watch vigilantly for any further incursions of atheistic encroaching on my freedoms. Rufus, beware.
--tibac