Billboard company: You can question God, not Obama R
WorldNetDaily
That's the observation of WND's Joseph Farah, the force behind a 2-year-old billboard campaign that doesn't even mention Obama's name, but merely asks, "Where's the birth certificate?" While ClearChannel refused to run those ads, along with two other major outdoor advertising companies, Lamar and CBS, ClearChannel is making its inventory of billboards available to the overtly anti-God humanist Center for Inquiry's "Living Without Religion" campaign kicking off this week in Indianapolis, Houston and other major cities.
"Ironic, isn't it, that in the United States of America, the country that invented the First Amendment as a means of limiting government's power over the people, that major media corporations would be timid about popular advertising that might appear critical of a certain government official while having no qualms about unpopular advertising that belittles the role of God?" asked Farah regarding what appears to him as a "morally bankrupt double-standard."
The message of the campaign by the atheists is: "You don't need God – to hope, to care, to love, to live."
Clear Channel billboard |
The message Farah's campaign has been promoting for two years without the help of what he called "the major media's billboard cartel" is: "Where's the birth certificate?"
Billboard on Highway 93 near Kingman, Ariz. |
"Now which one of those messages is more offensive?" Farah asks. "Which one is more controversial? Which one is an assertion whose truth is highly questionable? I think we all know the answers to those questions. And I think any reasonable person should be able to for a judgment about ClearChannel's very unclear policies vis a vis freedom of speech."
March 3, 2011