Ethics

Fake Quotes on Billboards

By Ed Brayton

Americans United reports on a series of billboards being put up by a Christian Nation apologist that includes at least one of the infamous fake founding father quotes.

A local fundamentalist group has decided to wage war on church-state separation by posting ten billboard advertisements that send the message that "America's government was made only for people who are moral and religious."

The billboards highlight quotes from our Founding Fathers that are misleading, false or taken out of context.

For example, one of the messages attributes this quote to George Washington: "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 24, 2009 (boomark / email).