Well, Double J, I think we've gone about as far as I care to go on this particular issue.

I could, as I am quite sure you know, respond intelligently and logically to every one of your responses, and then you could respond intelligently and logically to my responses to your responses, and we could go on and on, as nauseam, ad infinitum.

You believe that religion belongs in public schools and government venues, and I don't.

Like almost all issues, this is not a case of black or white. I understand your points, and I'm sure you understand mine.

I don't expect to change your mind, and I'm sure you don't expect to change mine.

We don't really know what the majority of Americans want in this case, and I suspect that we never will. And even if we did, deomcracy is not always about what the majority wants.

I think you would find that a fairly sizeable majority of Americans who live in the deep South, for example, would be very happy to return to the days of segregation and Jim Crow laws, but that doesn't mean that the majority should get what they want.

And I think you would agree that what the majority wants is not always the direction in which we should move. Not necessarily on this question, but in general.

So, for my money, I'm satisfied to say that we should simply agree to disagree here.

Besides, MarCas is starting to worry about my blood pressure.....