Reason Rally ad and the Jessica Alquist letter
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The hosts read an ad for the Reason Rally, a secular-movement gathering set for March 24, 2012 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. A listener letter then raises Jessica Alquist, the high-school plaintiff who sued to remove a school prayer banner in Cranston and was set to speak at the rally. The hosts discuss whether the atheist organization is using a minor for publicity.
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