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"These religious-right legal groups have done a very effective job of convincing people there is a war against religion in this country when there is not," says Barry Lynn, a lawyer and clergyman who is executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "In most parts of this country, institutions like public schools are getting along fine with religious people. In Texas alone there are 500 Bible clubs meeting before and after school. If we saw children being arrested for praying-a phrase they always use-or denied the right to carry a Bible on the school bus, we'd see it in newspapers coast to coast. In actuality we see it only in fund-raising letters." And as long as the funds keep coming in, we will see these Christian soldiers in court.
--Reported by Richard N. Ostling/Charlottesville and Andrea Sachs/Virginia Beach