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But they are influencing young children. If they want to promote atheism, then Christians can promote Christianity.

The Supreme Court has ruled that for legal purposes, atheism is a religion.

Kaufman v. McCaughtry

“It is also noteworthy that the administrative code governing Wisconsin prisons states that one factor the warden is prohibited from considering in deciding whether an inmate’s request to form a new religious group should be granted is “the absence from the beliefs of a concept of a supreme being.” See Wis. Admin. Code § DOC 309.61(d)(3), cited in Kaufman v. McCaughtry, 2004 WL 257133, at *9. Atheism is, among other things, a school of thought that takes a position on religion, the existence and importance of a supreme being, and a code of ethics. As such, we are satisfied that it qualifies as Kaufman’s religion for purposes of the First Amendment claims he is attempting to raise.”

http://openjurist.org/419/f3d/678/kaufman-v-r-mccaughtry

I am going to post to Jay Sekolow’s FB page. I am tired of doing nothing.

“But they are influencing young children. If they want to promote atheism, then Christians can promote Christianity.”

Doesn’t the story say that is exactly what happened? The Christians got to give the kids Bibles, so the school district had to allow the atheists to present their materials too.

It’s got to be one of the other. Either any religion/ideology can promote themselves on the school grounds, or none of them can. If the government starts picking which religion they want to allow, that is when I get worried. I do not trust the government to make the correct choice in those matters.

But they are influencing young children. If they want to promote atheism, then Christians can promote Christianity.

Did you read the article?

It was the school board which decided that Christian groups could come into the school and give out Bibles to the students. It was only in response to that program that the Atheists demanded, and got, equal time.