Local blogger Tom Borthwick weighs in on “Atheists.” bus ad controversy

Writing for NEPartisan.com, local blogger Tom Borthwick weighed in on the “Atheists.” bus ad controversy today showing support. Read the post here. NEPArtisan is dedicated to providing insight, commentary, and news important to the Northeastern Pennsylvania community. Administrators and Editors Tom Borthwick graduated from Marywood University in 2004 with a BA in English. He holds […]

The “Atheists.” bus ad controversy is a free speech issue, not a religious argument

Arguments regarding the truth value of religious claims have entered the controversy surrounding the “Atheists.” bus ad (see comments here) and some atheists in the comments section of the linked Times-Tribune article have taken the bait from some religious commenters who have levied personal attacks against atheists or otherwise have argued that there is good […]

Local news video and article: “No God No ad?” (WNEP)

Watch the video and read the article here. (Don’t click the picture.) WNEP TV 16 recently covered the controversy surrounding the NEPA Freethought Society’s really, really, really inoffensive “Atheist.” bus ad which was rejected by COLTS — an entity which receives county, state, and federal funding — and has previously had “Consider adoption…it works!” ads […]

[Audio] COLTS removes “God Bless America” from buses

No more of this nonsense… Dave Kaczmarek, vice president of the Amalgamated Transit Union 168 representing COLTS, appeared on the Corbett show earlier today [click for audio] with some really interesting breaking news. The “God Bless America” message which previously appeared on COLTS buses has been removed in the heat of the controversy surrounding COLTS’ […]