[mrnoodle]

I don't understand what the anger's about. There's no good old boys club. When you tell people that they can't talk about God except in the places that YOU think we should talk in, you can expect resistance. You people sound like the old Soviet guard: "This guy is religious. He's dangerous to society. We can't let his fairy tales come into contact with our pure secular way of thinking." Get a grip. Faith is part of the human condition, and atheist societies fail every time.

No one can make you pray if you don't want to. No one can set up a state religion under our constitution. But if you think that the instant someone enters government service, they must keep their faith a secret or share every secular view you do, you're nuts. No matter how many bold italics you use, you can never convince me that you're for anything less than the abolition of Christianity outside of private residences and churches.

Is that the wacko notion it appears to be? I guess you'll have to judge for yourself. But I can't come up with a single court decision or local public drama that hasn't ended with the non-Christian side winning. Kids can't have prayer groups in school. Crosses have to be removed from roadside memorials. If you share your faith, you're treading dangerously close to harassment charges -- almost like you're mentally raping someone for introducing to them the idea that there might be an ultimate truth in the universe. Religious figures are, in 99% of movies, TV shows, and other entertainment, objects of mockery. That is, unless they represent a religion other than Christianity. I'm not sure where you feel this horriby invasive religious interference is coming from.

Yet, if you look crossways at someone and they happen to be gay, you're open to lawsuits and worse. If you put a manger scene in front of your business, the ACLU will be there, trying to find a way to make you take it down.

Don't waste your breath telling me that Christianity is infringing on your rights. You're full of shit.