The Supreme Court made the right decision. It's getting ludicrous how the court's were taking every stray complaint by an atheist seriously. The courts had done enough of restricting religious liberty; it needed to take a rational balance between allowing Christians to practice their religion versus efforts to restrict the practice of Christianity. All matters of religion should not have been reduced by a few people here and there affecting thousands to express there thoughts to the masses. Separation of church and state was never meant to mean freedom from religion, where most of the founders of the United States were clearly Christian; they just wanted to prevent Christianity from controlling the government in the manner in which it controlled the United Kingdom or Roman Empire, but those two examples were exasperated by them being a monarchy.
Your comparisons to the Crusades, Inquisition, and, I'll add this one for you, the Quaker days, are just nonsensical. The Crusades and Inquisition were influence more by the Roman Empire than the Great Commission that Christians spread the Gospel, where the Crusades and Inquisition went out centuries ago, and where mainstream Christianity hasn't bared a semblance of being a threat to resurrect something like the Crusades or Inquisition in any part of the world, yet along in the United States, of all places, especially to the point that the courts entertained every stray atheists complaint to the point that it was implied that the United States, as a whole, had a rational phobia against Christians practicing the tenants of their faith; basically, the judicial branch and federal government were actually getting to the point of being manipulated by the atheists; that still might be the case. Modern day Christianity has no reputation that even resembles fundamentalist Islam and, baring the most persecuted lot in the world, for quite sometime now, appears to be a very pacifist type religion.
Just like in the days before so much government intervention in the practice of Christianity in the United States, if someone doesn't want to hear the Gospel, or is actually bothered by it, than the better of discretion is to just walk away to someplace where the person won't hear the Gospel being expressed, not being allowed to prevent thousands of other people from hearing the Gospel who might find the information being expressed interesting (e.g. on the flip side, people who don't want to view porn, find ways not to view porn, people who don't want to hear rap, find ways not to hear rap, people who don't want to hear heavy metal, find ways not to hear heavy metal, etc, without affecting the crowds that might discover that they have an interest in these things, rather for good or for ill). This Court decision just momentarily calmed some of the flames against Christianity in the United States a little, but the potential for accommodating a few stray atheists against thousands of Christians practicing their faith freely still remains in an unhealthy place.
By the way, this was kind of covered in an earlier thread.
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