It turns out that NC has a law that outlaws public officials who deny the existence of God. (It's in Article VI, Section 8, by the way. I had assumed that officials just ignored that article, the same way that they ignore most of the U.S. Constitution).
So, this guy is going to get hassled.
(Nod to Anonyman)
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"Plymouth Colony" (later, Massachusetts) in the late 1600s had laws calling for death penalties for idolatry, witchcraft, infidelity, blasphemy, cursing God, and for presumptuous Sunday desecration. Their 1651 law called for death for those who denied the Bible.
So, in 2009, we observe that religious persecution dies hard.
For purely contextual purposes, here is a picture of HK Edgerton, the "civil rights leader" who can't stand atheists who was quoted in that article: http://www.southernheritage411.com/
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