Reply #63: It is a religious stance and is entitled to equal standing

[askeptic]

McCollum v. Board of Education (1948)
By a 6-1 vote the Supreme Court agreed with Mrs. McCollum, an atheist mother, and disallowed the practice of having religious education to take place in public school classrooms during the school day.

ESA v. Rylander (2001)
A Texas district court ruled that a nontheistic Ethical Culture Society deserved a religious tax exemption. The Court rejected State arguments that religion must be defined by a belief in a "Supreme Being."

FFRF v. Rhea County Board of Education (2002)
A federal district court decides that a public school cannot have students from the local Bryan College come in to teach Bible classes.

As you can see, this has already been ruled on several times.

You might find that atheism is really little more than critical thinking applied to the subject of religion, and I won't be against it as long as their is equal time given to pointing out the inconsistencies both within the texts themselves and with the body of scientific knowledge, and to the logical fallacies inherent in the god hypothesis itself.