Unfortunately from their religious perspective, everything which is not in agreement with their scriptures is by default, evil, wheather tacitly or overtly.

Best just to ignore it, and deal with it when it is trying to be passed off as being based on facts, and not fundamentalist blather.

Who are they "confronting"?  The ONLY people who have hit their site, so far, are you.

The way to defeat the extremists is not sit HERE on b'net and cry, "Boohoo, they are giving wrong information"... the way to defeat them is to GET THE RIGHT INFORMATION OUT THERE. 

Do you REALLY think everyone who needs to be told they are liars will see your laments here?  Even facebook or myspace would be a better venue than b'net.

Reformationnow is correct. The Founding Fathers set up this country as a secular nation. People had the freedom to express their religious beliefs in the court of public opinion, but the government was prohibited from favoring one religion over another. However, the Religious Right, with the help of Christian law firms such as the American Center for Law and Justice, the Alliance Defence Fund, and Liberty Council are trying to exploit loopholes and establish a Christian theocracy. The method now is to institute the Bible as Literature or History classes in public schools, then use such courses to proselytize. Since SCOTUS at this point happens to be controlled by conservatives, they're having some success. American's Unites for Separation of Church and State points this out in an article titles Prayer and Preaching in Public Schools.

www.au.org/media/church-and-state/archiv...

What did our Founders have to say about this? James Madison has been called the Father of the Constitution. He was the person who wrote the First Amendment. It's not hard to find his opinion.

"Experience witnesseth that eccelsiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of Religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution." -- James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, addressed to the Virginia General Assembly, June 20, 1785

"Veto message, Feb 28, 1811, by . To the House of Representatives of the United States: Having examined and considered the bill entitled "An Act for the relief of Richard Trevin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, in the Mississippi Territory," I now return the same to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objection:

"Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land of the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares the 'Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment" ... James Madison (Veto message, Feb 28, 1811)

"The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well-meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity" ... James Madison (Letter to F.L. Schaeffer, Dec 3, 1821)

"The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State" ... James Madison (Letter to Robert Walsh, Mar. 2, 1819).

"Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and & Gov't in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history" ... James Madison (Detached Memoranda, circa 1820)

Is that enough or is more evidence needed to show that James Madison believed in Separation of Church and State, or as Thomas Jefferson put it, the Wall of Separation? I'll put it this way to the fundies, including the ones that violate the ROC by proselytizing in these forums, believe whatever you want, but don't teach it in my granddaughter's public school classroom. Teaching her religion is the job of her family, not the damn government school. If any Christians disagree, let us know how you would like it if your school board was dominated by Muslims and they required the schools to teach the Qur'an and Sharia Law.