Reply #79: Here's how I understand it

[customerserviceguy]

It's really not that tough to be a Christian anymore in this country. It's not like the old days where you had competing sects of Christianity keeping each other down, like in colonial times, or excluding each other from jobs (Utah excepted). It's way not like trying to be one in a Muslim country, or back in the days of the Roman emperors (pre-Constantine, of course). So, in order to find a cross to nail themselves to, fundie Christians come up with fake controversies, so they can feel 'persecuted', and thus holy like the martyrs of old. They go make fights over evolution, nativity scenes in public squares, and now this.

The best thing to do is ignore them, unless they really are infringing on another person's rights. All you do is feed the beast when you sue them over little petty stuff like this. Now, keeping kids stupid about evolution is worth fighting against, but there's nothing wrong with people excercising First Amendment rights to display whatever they want to on a car.

A far better tactic is to let them have their silly license plates, then get a judge to mandate that the DMV has to make available Jewish, Muslim, Wiccan, atheist, etc. plates available on the same terms. It's being treated equally that really chaps the hides of the fundies, they want to feel 'special' because they're looking for others to pick on them.