All the religious texts were written by a bunch of ignorant sheep-herders and such who were trying to make sense of a world which didn't understand. I was raised on the fantasy of a talking snake who convinced a chick to eat an apple so that made me a sinner right out of the womb...Oh-Kay. Then there was that virgin birth and a dead guy who three days later wasn't dead.

If people need religion to give meaning to their lives where there otherwise wouldn't be any, then more power to them. But keep it out of my face and most certainly keep it out of government.   Religion should be a very private affair between you and your maker. Public displays and public prayer are nothing more than a "look at me, look at how pure I am" kind of hypocrisy. 

Worship who and how ever you want but keep it our of all the rest of our faces including and especially on the issue of abortion.