Atheist group considers filing human rights complaint after billboard rejected

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Atheist group considers filing human rights complaint after billboard rejected
By Scott Kaufman
Sunday, December 8, 2013 12:25 EST



An atheist group in Canada is considering filing a human rights complaint after the country’s largest billboard company, Pattison Outdoor, rejected this advertisement:



The Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) created a billboard which shows a woman drinking coffee next to the title “Jenn 13:1? and the text, “Praying won’t help. Doing will.” Below the group’s name, it reads “Without God. We’re all good.”

A CFIC board member, Pat O’Brien, told the CBC that Pattison Outdoor “didn’t really give us a good reason why they turned us down. In fact when we asked for some guidelines, they said they didn’t have any guidelines that they could give us.”

Randy Otto, Pattison Outdoor’s president, insisted that the problem isn’t with the content of the ad, but with the CFIC’s reluctance to submit to the company’s normal editorial process. “They took a stand which said, here it is, you run it as it is or we’ll take our ad and go away. And now they’re suggesting that taking their ad and going away is somehow a violation of their human rights,” he said.