{"id":174,"date":"2012-02-29T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/justinvacula\/2012\/02\/29\/the-atheistskeptic-community-speaks-about-the-bus-ad-controversy\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T23:43:00","slug":"the-atheistskeptic-community-speaks-about-the-bus-ad-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/2012\/02\/29\/the-atheistskeptic-community-speaks-about-the-bus-ad-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"The atheist\/skeptic community speaks about the bus ad controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>[This post only contains coverage on and before 2\/29\/12.] <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>At the time of writing this blog post, it is quite clear that the atheist\/skeptic community is excited about the proposed upcoming &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinvacula.com\/2012\/02\/really-really-really-inoffensive.html\">least offensive atheist bus ad ever&#8217; campaign<\/a> and disappointed because COLTS has refused to run the ad on buses. We&#8217;re not giving up, though, and the ads will be on COLTS buses. If you&#8217;re not up to date on the issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinvacula.com\/search\/label\/NEPA%20Freethought%20Society%20bus%20campaign\">read my previous posts on the matter<\/a> and posts below from throughout the atheist\/skeptic community.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read what some others are saying (in no particular order).<\/p>\n<p>PZ Myers, Pharyngula<br \/>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2012\/02\/29\/i-deserve-to-be-flogged\/\">I deserve to be flogged<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True<br \/>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/29\/completely-inoffensive-atheist-ad-offends-a-bus-company\/\">Completely inoffensive atheist ad offends a bus company<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jen McCreight, Blag Hag<br \/>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/blaghag\/2012\/02\/those-radical-offensive-atheists\/\">Those radical, offensive atheists!<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Hemant Mehta, Friendly Atheist<br \/>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2012\/02\/28\/the-most-inoffensive-atheist-bus-ad-ever-rejected\/\">The most inoffensive atheist bus ad ever..rejected!<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Phil Ferguson, Skeptic Money<br \/>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticmoney.com\/evil-atheist-bus-ad\/\">Evil atheist bus ad<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Joe McKen, Preliator pro Causa<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/preliatorcausa.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/most-inoffensive-atheist-bus-ad-ever.html\">Most inoffensive atheist bus ad ever gets rejected<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This post only contains coverage on and before 2\/29\/12.] At the time of writing this blog post, it is quite clear that the atheist\/skeptic community is excited about the proposed upcoming &#8216;least offensive atheist bus ad ever&#8217; campaign and disappointed because COLTS has refused to run the ad on buses. We&#8217;re not giving up, though, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colts","category-local","category-nepa-freethought-society-bus-campaign","category-separation-of-church-and-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}