As Andrea Williams said, this decision is a victory for common sense.

Which, evidently, is not the goal of an amazing number of Mudcatters.

Jan, who does not believe in any God whatsoever--sometimes calls herself an atheist-- says she totally supports the decision. And when she was in the hospital for a very serious neck operation, a chaplain came around to her and asked if she wanted to pray with him. She declined. Then he asked if he could pray for her in the hospital chapel. She said that was fine.

She's with Kendall:   any positive energy is good.

In this case, the nurse offered. The woman declined. That should have been the end of it.

There was evidently no coercion whatsoever or attempted evangelizing of the older woman in the nurse's case.

All those who saw a threat in the nurse's behavior must have lurid tales to tell about being whipped by sadistic nuns earlier in life. Otherwise it's a mystery why so many Mudcatters are so violently opposed to religion--and Christianity in particular.

It's fortunate the legal system did not have to waste its time on this.

Religious bigotry and unwanted proselytizing do obviously exist. ( Look at Rev. Falwell and others of his ilk.   And Bishop Richard Williamson is a real gem.) But this ain't it.

I'm surprised so many Mudcatters, highly intelligent and articulate as they are, did not recognize this.