RALEIGH, N.C. – Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole is back on the airwaves with a new ad that again decries her rival’s ties to an atheist group.

Dole says in the ad airing Friday that the faith of Democratic state Sen. Kay Hagan is not the question. The incumbent says the facts are that Godless Americans held a fundraiser in her honor in Boston.

An adviser for Godless Americans held a fundraiser at his home. The event was not billed as a Godless Americans event, and other hosts included an ambassador and U.S. Sen. John Kerry.

Hagan has already filed suit against Dole, saying an initial ad on the subject was defamatory. Lawyers for Dole’s campaign filed a motion on Friday to dismiss the suit.

The letter, from the law firm Boyce & Isley, PLCC to Hagan’s attorneys at Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein, LLP, was delivered to Hagan’s campaign.

Dole ends her new ad by asking voters, “If Godless Americans threw a party in your honor, would you go?”

RALEIGH, N.C. - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan forcefully tells voters in a new television ad she believes in God and cites the Bible’s 9th Commandment to decry her rival’s tactics.

Hagan took to the airwaves Thursday with the ad, which directly declares that her Christian faith guides her life.

It’s a response to an ad from incumbent GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole that questions why Hagan went to a fundraiser at the home of a man who serves as an adviser to the Godless Americans Political Action Committee.
  
Dole’s ad ends by showing a picture of Hagan while another woman declares in the background, “There is no God!”

Referring to the Ten Commandments, Hagan says in her response her campaign is about creating jobs and fixing the economy, “not bearing false witness against fellow Christians.”