I agree, that is a horrible thing to have happen...but what happened there is not Christianity as our family knows it--that is pure intolerance. Perhaps I have mis-represented myself (although I'll never know since it seems my last comment was taken down--freedom of speech, eh? perhaps it was too religious). I would have to agree with Kerri that the presumption of our founding fathers was that we would be a Christian nation; however, I still see that it is a persons right not to believe. I have many friends who are athiest, catholic, or baptist. I'm LDS (mormon to those who call it that), and have been told many times that I don't count as Christian, my husband has had guns pulled on him for saying that being a mormon and Christian were synonomous(while in Alabama), so we do realize the awesome freedom in not having a theocracy.
However, what I was trying to say was that our founding fathers were religious people (actually, there were many different creeds among them, but they all agreed that there was a supreme being), and that it is truly a part of this nation, whether you want to see that or not. Read their writings--they constantly assumed that God had a hand in making this country what it is.

Another thought--why is it that we fight having religion represented in public (as it's offensive), but yet crude behavior is seen as a right...usually it's just as offensive, if not more so?