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Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts) Tue Jun 25, 2013, 07:45 PM Jun 2013

FFRF Plans to Run ‘Celebrate Our Godless Constitution’ Ad on July 4th

Every Independence Day since 2008, the Christian chain Hobby Lobby has run newspaper ads celebrating the “Christianity” of our Founding Fathers and how they supposedly wanted this to be a “Christian Nation.”

This year, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is taking a page from their book and running a counter-ad-campaign celebrating our “godless Constitution” and how our Founding Fathers actually supported separation of church and state. The ad also says “In Reason We Trust”:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/06/25/ffrf-plans-to-run-celebrate-our-godless-constitution-ad-on-july-4th/

Makes me glad I'm a FFRF member.