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The "One Nation Indivisible" Campaign...
On June 21st the artwork above started appearing on billboards across North Carolina, from the mountains to the sea. These billboards are appearing in the following areas: Asheville, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Charlotte, Raleigh, and Wilmington. This campaign is intended as a consciousness-raising effort to point out how every U.S. citizen who doesn't believe in a monotheistic god is being "officially" marginalized, disrespected, and discriminated against by the insertion of "under God" in the Pledge, by the supplanting of our former de facto national motto--E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One)--with "In God We Trust," by language in certain state constitutions (like the one in NC) which restricts anyone that doesn't believe in a monotheistic god from holding public office, and in many other ways. We believe the evidence clearly demonstrates that our Founders intended to establish a secular government, one that separated church from state. We believe the kinds of officially sanctioned marginalization and discrimination covered above is unconstitutional, that it violates the intentions of the Founders, and that it is fundamentally unfair. All we are asking is that every citizen give every other citizen the same kind of consideration they expect for themselves, and that we all try to live up to the spirit of the ideals our Founders gave us of liberty and justice for all. Some of the member groups of the North Carolina Secular Association will be participating in this campaign. Below is a list of these groups press releases for each billboard location: The cost of this campaign is over $15,000.00. The campaign is being funded through donations from the individual groups involved and FreeThoughtAction, a national freethought marketing organization. Below is a Google Map of the approximate locations the billboards.... "One Nation Indivisible" Billboard Ad CampaignView "One Nation Indivisible" Billboard Map in a larger map The Charlotte Billboard Goes Up
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"One Nation Indivisible" Ad Campaign SponsorRelevant Quotes"...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."- U.S. Constitution: Article VI "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." - U.S. Constitution: First Amendment "...the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..." - Treaty of Tripoli: Article 11 
"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." - Pledge as originally written by Francis Bellamy in 1892 "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." - Pledge as it was from 1924 - 1954 "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." - Pledge since 1954 
"E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One)" -The Motto our Founders gave us |