A Secular Voice in the Valley

Well, that didn’t take long.

The Central Valley Coalition of Reason “Don’t belive in God” billboard has been vandalized.

This billboard was posted mid-day on Tuesday, and press releases went out on Wednesday.  We had heavy news coverage on Wednesday and in Thursday’s Frenso Bee.

But the billboard didn’t make it unscathed even as far as the weekend.

The graffitti seems intended to take advantage of our current publicity.  Writing on a “godless” billboard doesn’t seem as important as getting out this tagger’s ID.

The previous billboard remained untagged until it was removed – it was a mostly white billboard with very little text, used to advertise the Red Cross.  All that white canvas wasn’t as attractive to a tagger than our little message of encouragement to non-believers.

Fresno does have a tagging problem, and I’m sure that the slime that does this sort of thing do so out of their own tagging aggrandizement, and not because they are in any way pious or faithful.  I hold little hope that this person or people will be caught and given the justice they deserve.

I do have hopes that the Fresno Community will stand together in their condemnation of this vile act.