But try to post the Ten Commandments in a school and you are symbolically thumbing your nose at everyone and anyone who doesn't recognize them as authoritative. If you criticize someone's ideas or beliefs, by simply promoting your own, you instantly become associated with all the religious bigotry of recorded history. But I have no difficulty whatsoever with a Buddhist congresswoman standing up and condemning a bill because of her religious convictions. That's the way it should be. Neutrality is a myth.
People run churches, schools, businesses, and governments.
And people have beliefs. But when too much consideration is given to the effect, convictions loose their edge and, in my opinion, the free market of thought suffers. I don't want to hear regurgitated, blunted words diluted by the fear of offense, inappropriateness, or minority repercussion. Another encroaching idea in this fog is that it's bad to have enemies, to be disliked, or not accepted. We already know what they are going to say.