Separation of Church and State doesn't mean you can't have prayer before a game and doesn't mean you can't have the Christmas scene on the public park!  Separation means you can't be taxed or imprisoned for not going to church (like the old days) and means you can't be imprisoned for going to the 'wrong' church.  If 85% of the population is Christian and 85% want the Christmas scene on the common, you can indeed have it!!  Somewhere along the line Democrats have chocked the courts with these clowns who think separation means you never have to encounter religiousity.  Sorry, that is NOT what it means!  It means you can't be taxed or jailed for going to the wrong church or for not going at all.  It never meant that you would not encounter religion and religiousity every day here.  It certainly never meant that you couldn't have a prayer before the game or the xmas scene on the common!  If the majority want it, the majority can have it!!  You have no need or law or right to have your minor religion or your atheist religion to have equal status with the religion of the majority.  Some day the supreme court will explain this to you.  Obviously the public schools don't understand it any more than the average Democrat, so they have been no help either in understanding the important points.

Separation of Church and State doesn't mean you can't have prayer before a game and doesn't mean you can't have the Christmas scene on the public park!  Separation means you can't be taxed or imprisoned for not going to church (like the old days) and means you can't be imprisoned for going to the 'wrong' church.  If 85% of the population is Christian and 85% want the Christmas scene on the common, you can indeed have it!!  Somewhere along the line Democrats have chocked the courts with these clowns who think separation means you never have to encounter religiousity.  Sorry, that is NOT what it means!  It means you can't be taxed or jailed for going to the wrong church or for not going at all.  It never meant that you would not encounter religion and religiousity every day here.  It certainly never meant that you couldn't have a prayer before the game or the xmas scene on the common!  If the majority want it, the majority can have it!!  You have no need or law or right to have your minor religion or your atheist religion to have equal status with the religion of the majority.  Some day the supreme court will explain this to you.  Obviously the public schools don't understand it any more than the average Democrat, so they have been no help either in understanding the important points.

You're so right, Chrissie78: you don't understand atheists. (Isn't it strange, though, that you publicize your ignorance online?) Those atheists whom I know most definitely have beliefs - for example, belief in the benefit of a lifelong inquiry, a pursuit of knowledge; the power of love; the virtues of the scientific method; the value of tolerance and compassion. If one wants to identify groups that seem to be widely and persistently 'offended', I suggest you'll have better luck among the religious. You know, people who are offended on religious grounds by the use of stem cells to cure lethal diseases. Or offended when whites and blacks marry, or offended by gays, or by the notion that a young victim of incest might need and seek an abortion. Whether it's Jeff Jacoby self-righteously judging those succumbing to painful and hopeless medical conditions who might seek to hasten the end of life; or the Taliban shooting a girl in the head because of her belief in the right of girls to attend school; or the Westboro Baptist Church picketing a Marine's funeral; or the Catholic Church's opposition to birth control (!) - all these are the result of offense being taken, and beliefs being imposed - often harshly - on others for purely religious reasons.