Here are the only quotes from the parties themselves. The rest of the article is opinion, so I'll leave it at this and just say that neither party should have been concerned one iota about what the other did. If the atheists did their thing first, I also wouldnt have cared.
The atheists quote referring to the blessing.
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"It sends a very bad signal to everyone in Polk County, and (anyone) who travels through Polk county who doesn't happen to be Christian," Palmer said, "This event is not about atheist rights; this is about welcoming everybody into Polk county."
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The church response is a directly quoted comment as well.
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"Having no positive statement to make, it wants to obliterate speech it disagrees with," Donohue wrote in a statement to FoxNews.com. "While the atheists are within their legal rights to attack the Christian message, it shows once again their proclivity to intolerance. Bullying is what defines them."
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