Preface: I'm an atheist, myself. The funny thing about this argument is that it's made within the same protection against religious discrimination that Dawkins

Preface: I'm an atheist, myself. The funny thing about this argument is that it's made within the same protection against religious discrimination that Dawkins would like to discard. Some of us might like to fantasize that laws against religious discrimination could be carefully disassembled so that atheists remain fully protected while all the theists get comeuppance for their objectionable views, but that isn't going to happen. If you get rid of laws against religious discrimination, it's not going to be open season on Christian creationists, it's going to be open season on atheists and Muslims (who poll almost as badly as atheists in the US).