Re: 10 Commandments in courtrooms---you can choose to see them, as I believe Woody Allen put it, as the 10 Suggestions. It would do nobody any harm to see them there, and if people started perhaps observing a few that would be progress.

As to the "nose in the tent" theory, it's hard to believe that there aren't enough super-vigilant guardians of religious freedom-- (like about 90% of Mudcatters)-- to make sure it doesn't progress to the next stage of theocracy. This sounds amazingly like yet another conspiracy theory. As I've said before, the Left has them and the Right has them. They don't help carry the discussion forward, and this particular one did some damage to real causes----like minimum wage, Roe vs Wade, the environment, etc., this time around.

As I said earlier, it's important to pick your fights.