Originally Posted by raytri

That's still illogical.

Say 100 years ago, everyone agreed that redheads were inferior. So they put on the coinage "Kick a redhead today."

Now, 100 years later, we don't think redheads are any different than anyone else -- and certainly the government has no business supporting or attacking redheads, blonds or anyone else for hair color.

According to your logic, deciding to remove the "kick a redhead" slogan would demonstrate a pro-redhead bias on the part of the government, and thus shouldn't be allowed. Which is plainly silly.

Similarly, going from a pro-religion stance to a neutral one is not supporting atheism; it's correcting a mistake -- taking a situation that is biased in favor of religion and returning it to its correct, unbiased state. Remove the words "In God we trust" from the coins, and the government is simply silent on religion -- neither supporting or attacking it. As it should be. Religion is the private business of the people -- the government should keep its nose out of it.