[narby]

Can't speak for you, obviously, but I read it:

The half-century campaign to eradicate any vestige of religion from public life has run its course. The backlash from a nation fed up with the A.C.L.U. kicking crèches out of municipal Christmas displays has created a new balance.

What part of "run its course" don't you understand?

And where does he mention the teaching of evolution as justification for religious people to feel threatened? That is the subject of this thread, you know.

[Tribune7]

And where does he mention the teaching of evolution as justification for religious people to feel threatened?

He doesn't. He just mentions that religious people had a justification to feel threatened.