Judge rules for atheist bus ads

(RNS) A federal judge ruled Thursday (Aug. 11) that the public transit
system in Little Rock, Ark., violated the free speech of local atheists
by refusing to run their advertisements on city buses.

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the Central
Arkansas Transit Authority (CATA) and its advertising agency were wrong
to reject the atheists' ads that read, "Are you good without God?
Millions are."

"Nontheistic bus ads will now be able to roll in Little Rock," said
Fred Edwords, national director of the United Coalition of Reason, an
umbrella group of nontheists that filed suit on behalf of a local
affiliate last year.