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Have any of you people got this on the mail?

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Just got this on my mail on the 6th (seen it only now...), anyway, feel free to blast it to atoms! And yes, discussion about prayer in schools has already been discussed.
Stupid bitch with nothing else to do wrote: CBS will discontinue "Touched by an Angel" for using the word God in every program.
Madeline Murray O'Hare, an atheist, successfully managed to eliminate the use of Bible reading from public schools a few years ago. Now her organization has been granted a Federal Hearing on the same subject by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, DC.
Their petition, Number 2493, would ultimately pave the way to stop the reading of the gospel our Lord and Savior, on the airwaves of America.
They have 287,000 signatures to back their stand!
If this attempt is successful, all Sunday worship services being broadcast on the radio or by television will be stopped. This group is also campaigning to remove all Christmas programs and Christmas carols from public schools!!You as a Christian can help! We are praying for at least 1 million signatures. This would defeat their effort and show that there are many Christians alive, well and concerned about our country. As Christians we must unite on this.
Please don't take this lightly. We ignored this woman once and lost prayer in our school and in offices across the nation. Please stand up for your religious freedom and let your voice be heard. Together we can make a difference in our country while creating an opportunity for the lost to know the Lord.
Please press "forward", CLEAN UP THE MESSAGE, and forward this to everyone that you think should read this. Now, please sign your name at the bottom (you can only add your name after you have pressed the "Forward"). Don't delete any other names, just go to the next number and type your name. Please do not sign jointly, such as Mr. & Mrs. Each person should sign his/her own name.
Please defeat this organization and keep the right of our freedom of religion. Also write to your senators and representatives in Washington, D.C.
When you get to signature 1000 please e-mail back to:
electric_yello@hotmail.com and faithcenter@cfaith.org
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*EDIT* There were 568 names on the list... pretty far from 1 million.
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Warspite wrote:*EDIT* There were 568 names on the list... pretty far from 1 million.
Pretty far from the 287,000 signatures on the other petition, as well. :D
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This is a despicable smear campaign. The petition in question does not exist, and O'Hare has been dead since 1995. The FCC is one of many sites that has webpages dedicated to debunking this hoax.

Snopes also has a good debunking of this myth on their site.
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Really? Damn! One more to throw into the fire of fundies!
Thanks!
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Damn, I thought O'Hare sounded familiar, but I didn't think they'd be dumb enough to mention an obviously dead person.

-1 to the fundies, yet again.
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I was thinking, "Holy shit, we can't go up against this! O'Hare is obviously some sort of necromancer!"
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