To the editor:

With the impeccable reasoning characteristic of religious advocates, Scott Burkhart believes that the best way to practice tolerance in our diverse nation is for government to advocate the ideals and display the symbols of the majority religion, Christianity. To do less, he argues, is just another example of the unceasing oppression of poor, marginalized Christians by a minority of bullying secularists.

Dry the tears of laughter from your eyes, and consider his point. Only seven of nine justices on the Supreme Court are Christian, and only six are Catholic — the most persecuted of the Christian denominations, by Catholic reckoning. Protestants, with one justice who is soon to step down, may reckon differently of course. Jews seem content with their two court representatives, perhaps because it is more than proportional, and they are accustomed to being squeezed. Clearly this is evidence of secularist manipulation, probably with the ACLU behind it.

Likewise in the legislative branch. Numbers shift, but Christians are merely 89 percent (including Mormons, which Burkhart may dispute), Jews about 8 percent, with a tiny smattering of Muslims, Buddhists and those who say “none of your business.” Atheists/humanists are represented by one fellow from California, and he actively persecutes the rest.

With Burkhart, I celebrate God’s timely intervention on the Supreme Court to halt one more secularist affront to Christianity’s rightful, traditional claim to be, officially, more equal than other faiths in the USA, no matter what the Constitution and the founders actually said. Let freedom ring.