{"id":146,"date":"2012-03-20T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/justinvacula\/2012\/03\/20\/local-print-media-colts-stands-firm-on-atheist-ad\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T22:22:00","slug":"local-print-media-colts-stands-firm-on-atheist-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/2012\/03\/20\/local-print-media-colts-stands-firm-on-atheist-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Local print media &#8211; &#8220;COLTS stands firm on atheist ad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Singleton, writing for the Times-Tribune, published a story following today&#8217;s County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS) board meeting. I attended the meeting thinking that COLTS would reconsider its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinvacula.com\/2012\/02\/really-really-really-inoffensive.html\">refusal of the &#8220;Atheists.&#8221; bus ad<\/a> sponsored by the NEPA Freethought Society &#8230;but my hopes were shattered when Timothy Hinton &#8212; one of COLTS&#8217; solicitors &#8212; said that COLTS is standing by its original decision to refuse our ads.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/thetimes-tribune.com\/news\/colts-stands-firm-on-atheist-ad-1.1288259#axzz1phGP9vC3\">Times-Tribune article<\/a> for more information.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8230;and weigh in in the comments section because it is getting quite silly. Once again, people aren&#8217;t realizing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinvacula.com\/2012\/03\/atheists-bus-ad-controversy-is-free.html\">this is a free speech issue<\/a> and not a religious argument. The whole point of this ad was to be as inoffensive as possible and, for some reason, the NEPA Freethought Society is being labeled as being antagonistic and a &#8216;hate group&#8217; by some commenters.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;re not giving up.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Singleton, writing for the Times-Tribune, published a story following today&#8217;s County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS) board meeting. I attended the meeting thinking that COLTS would reconsider its refusal of the &#8220;Atheists.&#8221; bus ad sponsored by the NEPA Freethought Society &#8230;but my hopes were shattered when Timothy Hinton &#8212; one of COLTS&#8217; solicitors &#8212; [&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-146","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\/146","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=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}