If the bad examples define a religion, who can be a Christian if they aren't Fred Phelps?
Defining religions by their worst case examples wasn't the point of my response. The point was that our unique form of gov't was made possible through adoption of Christian principles and our Founders belief in an all-powerful, omniscient, intelligent Creator. America was not given birth to by Budhism, animism, etc. And if we all want to continue to be free people blessed with Constitutional rights found nowhere else in the world,including the right to worship, then all of us, no matter whether Budhist, Wiccan, or whatever, had better respect and protect the source of those freedoms......Christianity and God of the bible.