Godless Ad

An ad by the campaign of Senator Elizabeth Dole against her opponent is stirring controversy. The TV ad suggests Kay Hagan is associated with Godless Americans PAC, a group opposed to any reference to God in government. A Hagan fundraiser was held at the home of a man associated with the group. In the ad, the announcer asks, "If Godless Americans threw a party in your honor, would you go?” And a female voice that sounds like Hagan says, “There is no God.”

Hagan has filed a lawsuit claiming defamatory. It’s unlikely such a suit would prevail, since the courts have typically considered any political speech as protected.

The president of the N.C. Council of Churches has written Dole a letter opposing the ad as “deplorable”.

Here's the ad: