Friday, May 31, 2013

Jessica Ahlquist Interview

The brave teen has won a First Amendment Award at the Playboy mansion, and she was interviewed for the web afterward:

2 comments:

Christian said...

WOW! Didn’t realise she needed a police escort between classes. I am sure it must be to protect her from all the adoring Christian fanatics ;)

I think she sums it up correctly in the end, its about rights of the individual. Even though as an atheist I would like to see the complete destruction of religion, as all it does is breed hate.

LadyAtheist said...

She probably knew there would be pushback but the reaction in her community was extreme. Things like that have a very chilling effect on others who would want to speak out.