At the same time no public employee (speaking of boss types here) has the right to dictate adherence to one or the othe standards regarding religion.
Even the business about keeping public areas devoid of religious materials has a very weak justification.
Frankly, this country needs a law that requires the imprisonment for 60 days for any elected or appointed public official who gives an order that uses the word religion (or variations thereof). This would include judges.
Make it an automatic sort of thing ~ they say the word "religion" while on the job. The mutawan comes around, picks them up, tosses them in a hole for 60 days, and then lets them out.
Enough times and these guys might get the idea that other folks' religious standards and beliefs are NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS.
They had the guy (I can’t remember his name) from the Northern Colorado ACLU on the radio here earlier in the week. He had a big part in instigating this and was an absolute rude a**hole on the radio. He didn’t want to listen to the hosts at all and kept attempting to talk over them as if his was the only opinion that mattered. He even PO’d the liberal host so much that he said that the ACLU was hurting the “progressive” cause with this move.
I love it when they eat their own.