Special to the Tribune
For the next six months, people on the roads of Pinellas and Hillsborough counties will rumble past billboard ads making false claims and misleading assertions about our country's history and commitment to religious freedom. One ad even fabricates a comment from the first president of the United States.
Recently, local media reported on the billboard advertisements that use quotes from history to "portray a national need for Christian governance."Those behind the billboards refer to the separation of church and state as a "lie" and say our country's Judeo-Christian foundation is "the reason that this country has prospered for 200-plus years."
The only lies being told are featured on the billboards themselves.
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