So, if you find me using your favorite abbreviations, it doesn't mean I'm your buddy!
I hope the A.C.L.U. and their buddies go to court so we can change the calendar. Even if they change it to C.E., we're still counting years from the birth of Christ, which means that it's promoting religion.
I will e-mail this thread to the ACLU for their follow-up. We should re-number all the years. What we now think of as 2004 should be re-numbered as the Year One, because that's the year same-sex marriage came to America. (sarcasm alert). Certainly that is the most significant place to start a calendar.