{"id":141,"date":"2012-03-21T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/justinvacula\/2012\/03\/21\/christian-post-atheist-pleads-freedom-of-speech-violations-after-rejected-bus-ad\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:17:00","slug":"christian-post-atheist-pleads-freedom-of-speech-violations-after-rejected-bus-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/2012\/03\/21\/christian-post-atheist-pleads-freedom-of-speech-violations-after-rejected-bus-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Post: &#8220;Atheist Pleads Freedom of Speech Violations After Rejected Bus Ad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stoyan Zaimov, a writer for the Christian Post, has authored an article regarding &#8212; as the title implies (and readers of this blog would rightly assume) &#8212; the recent controversy surrounding the County of Lackawanna Transit System&#8217;s (COLTS) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinvacula.com\/2012\/02\/really-really-really-inoffensive.html\">refusal of the &#8220;Atheists.&#8221; bus ad<\/a>. Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/atheist-group-pleads-freedom-of-speech-violations-after-rejected-bus-ad-71843\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, COLTS&#8217; solicitor has gone on the record claiming this advertisement &#8212; an innocuous content-free message &#8212; is attacking religion. I wonder how the solicitor arrived at this conclusion. Zaimov writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hinton, however, repeated: &#8220;We don&#8217;t accept ads promoting any certain  religion or religion in general, so we don&#8217;t want to accept an ad  attacking religion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoyan Zaimov, a writer for the Christian Post, has authored an article regarding &#8212; as the title implies (and readers of this blog would rightly assume) &#8212; the recent controversy surrounding the County of Lackawanna Transit System&#8217;s (COLTS) refusal of the &#8220;Atheists.&#8221; bus ad. Read the article here. Interestingly enough, COLTS&#8217; solicitor has gone on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,25,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colts","category-local","category-me-in-the-media","category-nepa-freethought-society-bus-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}