Another brief update on the atheist bus ad campaign. Spurred by the unexpected popularity of the campaign in the U.K., atheist and humanist groups in Canada have launched identical (but unrelated) campaigns in Toronto and Montreal.
In Toronto, the campaign is being promoted by the Freethought Association of Canada (at that first link you can see photos of the actual buses, not my McKenzie-fied version). Other Canadian cities such as Halifax and (surprisingly) Vancouver have already rejected the ads. Meanwhile, the Association humaniste du Québec are making their own bid for Montreal (longer story, but in French only, here).
Here in the United States of Jeebus, I guess it’s likely to be a while before you’ll see that particular message gracing the side of a bus. But the Boston Examiner reports that the Freedom From Religion Foundation will be featuring their own bus sign campaign in Madison, WI, featuring quotations from such famous atheists as Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Clarence Darrow, and Butterfly McQueen. They’ve had some successes and some failures with similar campaigns on billboards in various cities, and they caused quite a brouhaha in Washington State over holiday displays in the state capitol last year.
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Add Calgary to the list of places where the ad is running, too. O Canada!