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Freddie Schineller is a hip-looking math professor with a salt-and-pepper goatee. His artist wife, Holly, has long blond hair and stays home to take care of their four kids ages 8-12.

...Holly and Freddie don’t believe in God. And, earlier this year, they decided it was time to “come out of the closet” in a big way about who they are.

After a family meeting, the Schinellers volunteered to appear on a Valley billboard for a campaign by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national group that aims to boost social acceptance of atheists and spotlight the growing numbers of non-religious Americans.

...A portrait of the smiling Schineller family appears on a billboard in Mesa, one of nine featuring Phoenix-area residents or families who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or freethinkers, posted throughout the Valley. There are two in Tucson.

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