It is impossible to gain any meaningful understanding of complex, multi-faceted issues and events, by simplistically reducing them to cliches about there being "two sides".

I will say it again. Many of the parties involved in this manufactured, sensationalized "controversy" are neither sincere, nor well intentioned. This situation has nothing to do with anyone's personal religious beliefs, and everything to do with the secretive and manipulative political agenda of the radical right in the US. The demonstrators are carpetbagging "ministers" and their gullible, poorly educated Southern evangelical cult followers. The "10 Commandments Judge" is himself a cynical and manipulative politician, in this for his own personal and political gain. The Republican leaning media outlets are playing this story to the hilt, to keep feeding the right wing's political and religious dupes and fools, or to create the illusion of legitimacy, and to bestow that legitimacy upon the agenda of the Republican right. That agenda includes imposition of Christianity on the secular US state through the judiciary, in order to sidestep the Constitution's ban on doing it through the legislative branch. That agenda is actually treasonous, but no one will call it that. Rather, they focus on the smokescreen of the Ann Coulter's, who demonize their political opponents as "enemies and traitors" as a tactic of distraction.

I also disagree with Little Hawk's contention that cleansing all levels of government in the US of it's Christian ethos, would be a waste of time and resources. It would do more to dispossess the political right of their success in imposing their devious and treasonous agenda, than any other strategy could do in a hundred years of partisan fighting over control of the government, the economy, and the resources of the country. These people need to be exposed for the frauds that they are, which is impossible as long as the politicians keep appeasing the Christian right with a wink and a nod, and the Christian ethos so prominently displayed in the nation's everyday mythology and symbolism.