This week's big Des Moines area scandal involved ads on the sides of metro buses that questioned the existence of God, sponsored by an atheist group. Apparently some people (one? ten? fifty?) complained and succeeded in having the ads pulled. Even our intellectually-challenged, political-pandering governor weighed in to say he was disturbed by the ads.
(An aside here. This is the same governor standing in the way of allowing Iowans a referendum vote on whether to overturn the legalization of gay marriage. Now, I don't have a problem with gay marriage, but I have a huge problem with a governor who determines his morality based on whether it wins him support within his party. Like so many politicians, the guy doesn't stand for anything, he only stands for what wins him votes.)
In the end, the god of common sense rose up and defeated the small-minded fools who think their religious beliefs are the only ones protected by free speech. The ads were allowed again, the religious bigots crawled back under their rocks, and the sun came up in the east. Oh, and people were again reminded that while this country was founded on Christian principles, 200 years of evolution later we have a religiously diverse country where not everyone believes in the same thing.
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