I wasn't picking on you, Fester. Mr. Buchanan (thanks for correcting my typo in the quote, btw) has provided the direction for this thread, and your statement puts you in the more rational camp.
The controversy is best reserved for the later years of education when the evaluative faculties of the student are developed to the extent they can express the strengths and weaknesses of both sides.
I agree.
It would not bother me much if you were. What I mean in saying "I don't have any friends" is that I am fully capable of offending everybody on any side of an issue. WRT the issue at hand, Christians who think it is necessary to establish their faith in public schools and atheists who think it is their duty to do the same can take a hike.
Both enjoy, or at least should enjoy, the protections of our Constitution. Therefore both should enjoy a hearing in the public forum. Of all nations of people, we're the ones who should "get it." Judge Jones apparently doesn't, and if there is an overzealous Christian version of this guy, he won't get it either.