" BTW, I didn't know posting on this forum was a contest."
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It isn't. You explicitly made a bet (in the statement I quoted), and you lost that bet. 
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"As far as Delta itself goes, too bad they didn't hold to their convictions. Being bullied by anti religion groups and folding is not how you show fealty to the Constitution."
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You have it backwards. Again. The Board members were the bullies trying to do an end run around the Constitution to use taxpayer money to force their supporters' religion on school children. The others just used their own ploy against them in a way those supporters would (and did) find intolerable. The Board's own lawyers told them they were in a hopeless position. It's easy {if somewhat cowardly} for someone with no knowledge of the events and nothing at risk to sit back and declare that someone else should have wasted more time and money defending that failed ploy.