My young son studied America's colonization last year in 5th grade, and I routinely tested him on the material in preparation for quizzes and tests. There was some major oppression of certain religions going on in England in the 1600s and people like Quaker William Penn brought many of these people here to my state (actually "Commonwealth") which was named after Penn's father (trivia answer there).
I do not dispute the notion that government should never oppress or favor or even endorse one religion over any other(s). But if a judge wants to put a monument to the ten commandments in the (taxpayer-owned) courtroom he runs, or if a President wants to light a giant Christmas tree on the (taxpayer-owned) grounds of the White House he runs, then that's just great by me. I am sick and tired of filthy liberal scumbags who see a conspiracy to establish a "state religion" behind every tree and in every classroom and in every public building. The pendulum has swung way too far to the side of the pedophiles, athiests, Democrats, abortionists, and child pornographers, etc., in my opinion.