It's just politically irksome for many to accept that those of Christian heritage could possibly devise such a great and fair and workable constitution. Any reminder of that reality flies in the face of the current distortion that we are force-fed -- that Christianity is a cruel and oppressive religion.

It's not the religious content that is prompting the move to ban all religious symbolism -- it's that it's to hard to completely revise our history with these reminders that point contrary to the secularist picture of a cruel and oppressive Christianity.