City steps into billboard controversy
It turns out, the city was the one to ask sign company General Outdoor to take down the "Imagine No Religion" billboard. Apparently, city hall was inundated with calls complaining about the sign by Freedom From Religion Foundation.It's not the first time the city frowned upon a billboard. You might remember the billboard about vagina rejuvenation that was on Foothill Boulevard. The city asked the company owning that sign to take it down, too.
But Peter Scheer, who heads the California First Amendment Coalition, said the two situations are very different. The vaginoplasty sign "is dealing with a mature subject in a way and in a place where children will be clearly exposed to and parents will not be able to control that exposure," Scheer said. "It means that the city's actions there is less vulnerable to a First Amendment challenge."
Asking the company to take down the "Imagine No Religion" sign however, crosses the line, said Scheer, because that's the kind of speech that the First Amendment is supposed to protect.
Do you agree with him?
Of course the billboard company did not have to take the sign down, but do they have to accept business from some group who wants to offend the community they work in? Certainly the city did NOT cross the line in asking them to take it down. The company still had the right to say no.
Removing God form our country will be the fall of our nation!!! Why do you thing everything is getting so bad sin is now the normal way of living.
The message was relatively innocuous. You see billboards promoting a religious lifestyle all the time - why should the city treat a billboard promoting a non-religious lifestyle differently?
This is not the sort of thing the city should be deciding on behalf of its citizens. If the people of RC are so offended at the idea that people might promote a non-religious lifestyle as an alternative to church-going, let them badger the billboard company themselves. Let the free market speak without government interference.
- Jeff
Sorry typo think.
I think YOU ALL need to stop and realize that RELIGION is a Choice. You choose to have one or NOT.
You are not born with it, just like being a BIGOT. You're not born a bigot, you're taught to be one. It's been thousands of years and the brain washing is still going strong, Unbelievable that people still believe that stuff is real.
How sad to think of all the lives wasted and that were killed in the name of something that is clearly not real. Humans are so just so funny, we are creatures of habit.
Open your EYES PEOPLE!!!!! EVERYONE ON THIS PLANET IS EQUAL IN EVERY WAY. JUST ON THE OUTER APPEARANCE AND THE HABITS AND LANGUAGE THAT WE ACQUIRE FROM OUR BIRTH AREA, OTHER THAN THAT WE ARE THE SAME.
RELIGION makes you narrow minded, so you can't see the whole picture.
You know Adolf Hitler was narrow minded and look where it got him.
As you can tell I am an atheist, I don't need to believe in something to make me feel better or make me behave, I am good person to everyone I see or I try to be, I do make mistakes but so what everybody does. If I'm in the wrong I try to make it right.
WHOOPS I do believe in one thing (ME) and that's it. I answer to me and me only and not anyone else or any imaginary person.
There are COMMUNISTS in Rancho Cucamonga;
The Communists have won, and the billboard has been taken down.
We all need to BOYCOTT ALL businesses in that Town. Free Speech doesn’t exist in Rancho Cucamonga.
How about a rex guttierrez for mayor of los angeles sign?
Make no mistake, there is no room for debate in the City of Rancho Cucamonga. It's come down to tyranny of the majority, but then does anyone expect anything else? We know gays and atheists are not welcome in Rancho, so back in the closet you go.
And what, exactly, was so offensive about the sign's message? Its idea. City officials used their influence to censor an idea. People weren't even able to articulate their emotional reaction into a thoughtful and reasonable explanation about why the sign is offensive! I am ashamed and angered that the city has stepped in and acted on behalf of religion.
I truly feel sorry for atheists! They know not what they are doing. Those that believe should pray that the atheists will see the truth some day. Some very famous atheists are very strong Christians just because they did their homework. Christians are not perfect and sign or no sign you will not hurt us. It won't be long when it is the Christians that have to hide. Being tolerant does not mean that we have to accept what you do and say it is okay. Get used to us and be tolerant of us! I'm glad the sign is down, it greatly offended my teenager!
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