High School Civics

Recently a local group I am a quasi-member of put up a billboard at one of the busiest intersections in my city.  The billboard said "Don't believe in god? Join the group!" with a link to the groups website.   Tonight there were two stories on the local news stations covering it, a rather hateful posting on a local radio stations website and tomorrow the local paper will be covering it.  I spent hours pouring over the posts on the facebook page for one of the networks and it was very enlightening.  Most of the posts were respectful, but it was abundantly clear that too many people lacked a proper understanding of rights, including the poster of the article who stated "Should this be taken down?"  Other people posted claiming it infringed on their rights to even see such a thing.  It was really disappointing.  I think more people need to retake high school civics class.