Red River Freethinkers get plugged

The Fargo newspaper has a reasonable, impartial article on the freethought convention this weekend. It's too bad: inflammatory ranty articles get more attention, and it would have been good to have a few picketers here at the hotel. As it is, we just had a good time.

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