Lets reword some of that:

I’m not against them having their freedom, I just don’t think it should be in public.

I’m not against them having the vote, but worrying about politics distracts from their kitchen duties.

They don’t just want emancipation, they want my liberty.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but they shouldn’t be saying it where I have to hear it.

It’s ok if they don’t agree with my faith as long as they get my permission before they disagree first.

I don’t mind if they ride in the back of the bus, I just don’t want their world view out where I can read it.

We’re not bigots, we just don’t like those anti-social types.

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“To have this at this time come out with a blatant disrespect of our faith, we think is unconscionable.”

They say we *can’t* be good without God, we say we can, and somehow we are the disrespectful ones.

Saying that we can be good without God is disrespectful. Ok.

So what does that make saying that atheists are denying the will of God and deserve to be tortured eternally? Is that respectful? How about saying that you would never vote for an atheist? Is that a display of respect?

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Feeling hurt and badly done to is one of the standard initial responses you get from any Theist , so why are we so surprised ....errr maybe we aren’t surprised then!

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Show me in the Constitution where it says Christians have the right to NOT BE OFFENDED and maybe listen to their griping.

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Mr Z - good, nailed it.

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Theists are getting more and more aggressive.

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This religious bigotry is the main reason why so many American atheists are the closet atheists.  I suspect that they fear direct or indirect repercussions, affecting their social, professional and financial standing. 
Nowhere else in the developed world have I seen so much blatant, in-your-face religion as in the U.S.

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update:  http://www.examiner.com/humanist-in-national/update-dallas-fort-worth-transit-bans-atheism-all-religion-from-bus-ads

Dallas-Fort Worth transit bans atheism, all religion, from bus ads

After angry Christians complained about atheist bus advertisements, the Fort Worth transit authority has banned all religious advertising. The controversial ads, paid for by Metroplex Atheists, read “Millions of people are good without God.” Many resident Christians were very unhappy with the challenge to their religion.

A concerned group of Christians met with the transportation authority’s president to demand that the policy allowing religious advertising on buses be reversed. They would rather ban all religious advertising than allow the atheists to promote their position. The authority’s vote was unanimous to ban all religious advertising, including ads promoting atheism.

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This is curious; while dealing with a personnel issue at work once upon a time, I told the southern babtist minister in my employ that my position on the issue was one of neutrality meaning that I would have to give equal weight to the Atheist in my employ. 
                                                 
He was VERY quick to state that atheisim was not a religion as recognized by the Southern Babtist Association and therefore could not be held to same standards as his christian religion in the freedom of religion and free exercise thereof.

If this is true then the atheisim concept should be exempt from what they called ‘religious’ advertising; they should not be held to that standard and therefore they should be allowed to freely adverstise. Sounds like one for ‘Americans United’ to investigate.

Is it not amazing how the religious community can justity anything they want to? I admit that I am personally offended each and everytime the guy comes on television ‘advertising’ that Jesus loves me and that I should consider accepting him into my life; I almost always mute or change the channel.

Let’s hope fellow atheist’s have the gonads to pursue this; if atheists can’t advertise on the bus boards, how can the religious advertisments then be justifiable on television~

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