As an atheist sick and tired of having to pretend in public that various religious dogmas and scientific knowledge are equally worthy of respect, and fully aware of how much monstrous evil can be lain at the doorstep of religious belief and believers, I nevertheless am not sure the Court's opinion in the football prayer case is wrong ... in detail. No question the entire community (and state) is entirely god-addled, but it also seems a school district administration failed to grasp that what they tried to do was only going to raise a mob of peasants eager to storm their castle. And as a consequence, now it's nationalized. We are only months away from prayers in classrooms all over America, mandated by state legislatures and anti-enlightenment courts.

The question in my mind is -- is your exercise of religious "freedom" about your religious freedom or is it something you want to shove in my face and down my throat?

My idea of religious freedom is much like my idea of how loud someone in a public park or campground should play his music: if others can hear it in their space, it's too loud.

We've moved away from "keep your religion pooping on your own lawn" to something else. It's not enough to spew it out onto your own turf. It needs to be on public property too, and waft its fragrance into everybody's nostrils.

The coach seems to have initially agreed to keep the meetings private and unperformative, then changed his mind and decided he was going to do it in others' face.

Everybody needs to be an asshole from now on. Failing to be an asshole is unconstitutional.