‘Godless’ billboard goes up

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A follow-up to a story you saw FIRST ON 3 last night. The billboard that some people are calling Godless is up in our area. The billboard that says “One Nation Indivisible” will be in Wilmington for at least four weeks.

The North Carolina Secular Association and a number of other statewide groups are behind the push to get the words “under God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance.

One business owner’s store is right below the billboard. He says the billboard was done tastefully.

“It doesn’t appear to me to be any big deal at all,” Mike Connelly said. “Ninety percent of the people that go by probably won’t even notice it, or even more. Hopefully, we won’t have any negative reaction from anybody in the area that would do something radical or stupid. It should be fine.”

The billboard will also appear in Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh and Winston-Salem.