It’s a sad day in America when you can’t even acknowledge the existence of God in a ceremony as important as a presidential inauguration without atheists seeing it as persecution:

The head of an atheist group that has filed a lawsuit against prayer at Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration says the government is picking a winner between “believers” and “those who don’t believe” and subjecting atheists and agnostics to someone else’s religious beliefs.

I want to believe that fringe activists like this will always be in the minority in this country and their lawsuits forever dismissed as nonsensical extremism. But the belief that God can never be mentioned in a public forum seems to be taking stronger root.