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South Bend Bus System Bans Future Ads Promoting Churches

By Howard M. Friedman

Last month, the South Bend, Indiana bus system, Transpo, agreed to accept an ad from the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign. The bus ad read: ""You Can Be Good Without God." (See prior related posting.) Now that the month long contract to run that ad has expired, Transpo's board of directors on Monday adopted a new policy on acceptable ads. In the past, its rules merely allowed it to reject "controversial" ads. Concerned about the breadth of that standard, the new rules instead prohibit ads promoting cigarettes, churches, politicians, guns or pornography. Monday's South Bend Tribune and Tuesday's Examiner report on the Transpo board's action. [Thanks to Scott mange for the lead.]

Full post as published by Religion Clause on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).