(Photo: 2Bangkok.com)
Buddhist billboard -
April 5, 2007
For about a month, these billboards, designed to influence public opinion over the constitution, have been on display around Bangkok.
This one reads:
Buddhists, let's support the new constitution to
1. name Buddhism as the state religion
2. specify that His Majesty must a Buddhist upholder of all religions
Note the mega bridge and outer ring road bridges in the distance.
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