The Virginia General Assembly today went on record in a resolution denouncing advertising which contains religious bias. The resolution was adopted after a bill to enforce such a ban was killed.
“The publication, posting, broadcasting, circularizing, issuing, displaying, transmission, or other dissemination or placing before the public of any commercial advertising to the effect that the patronage or custom of any person is, because of his religion, not welcome, or objectionable, or not solicited, is a reprehensible act which is calculated to foment discord and cause disunity in this time of grave peril to the state, and one which is strongly condemned by this body, which is dedicated to the preservation of all the liberties of the people of this commonwealth against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” the resolution stated.
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