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A new billboard is going up in six North Carolina cities with a seemingly innocuous slogan superimposed on an image of the American flag: “One Nation Indivisible.”

It’s what the slogan doesn’t say that may bother some people.

Since 1954, the Pledge of Allegiance has split those three words to include two others: “under God.”

But this billboard was paid for by the North Carolina Secular Association, a coalition of nonbelievers and agnostics. Their message: We’re Americans, too.

“We’re trying to restore the sense of one nation indivisible,” said Joseph McDaniel Stewart, a member of Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics who initiated the billboard campaign. “It’s a nation that welcomes people who believe or don’t believe. Everybody’s equal in the eyes of the law.”

Continues: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/23/2039883/message-on-nc-billboards-nonbelievers.html

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