This is one of those threads that purport to be one thing, but are actually another. Buck Mulligan got it right.

This isn't about children and religion. It is about attacking religious beliefs.

Quite frankly, it is no one's business. I have every right to pass on my spiritual, religious, political, and social values to my children. It is my right, and it is none of your business, unless you can show abuse of some form. And teaching one's religious values can hardly be termed abuse. Unless you are willing to let me call teaching atheist, pagan, buddhist, or any other value system as abuse.

WYSIWYG made the point. My children have been on picket lines with me, have worked on political campaigns with me, and have gone to church with me their whole lives. I am raising them to be ethical, spiritual, politically aware, and caring individuals. And pity the person who tries to insert themselves into that process and tell me I can't. I made them, and I am responsible to see to it they become responsible citizens, as I see that to be.

Mick