I don't know much about this, but it doesn't seem to hold anyone back here...

I think that the separation of church and state is good...although on the surface it doesn't seem to be. When my children went to school and then my grandchildren too, I wouldn't have argued if there was something taught about religion or prayers prayed if it agreed with the religion our family followed. BUT, I wouldn't have liked it at all if the religion taught and the prayers prayed were not what we believed. I would say the same thing about creationism being taught in schools. Who is to stop a lot of different theories of origin taught that are religious. Some of us would agree with them completely and some of us wouldn't. We can choose if our children get sex education. It makes me feel bad that our kids aren't really allowed to be taught values the way we were as kids, but unfortunately not everyone agrees about values.

I like it a lot to see the Christmas lights at our local police station in West Chester. But, I kinda wonder if my Jewish friends feel a little hurt by that.

This is not an easy question and there are no easy answers.