Dave,
Of course the founding fathers were heavily influenced by Christianity. The point is that it doesn't matter. A majority of Americans today are also heavily influenced by Christianity. That doesn't matter, either. Our courts have been fairly consistent in interpreting the Constitution's injunction against establishing a relgion to mean that our government can't, in fact, establish a religion. Can you really be honest with yourself if you say that putting scripture -- including an order to have no other gods -- on the walls of the courthouse isn't an attempt to establish a religion?

Even if you can convince yourself that it isn't such an attempt, can you try to understand that there are millions of American citizens who aren't Christians and who feel excluded from equal protection under the law because of the scriptures on the walls of the halls of justice? I feel discriminated against. Is the governmentally sanctioned statement of someone else's faith really worth that to you?

John Peekstok