@Volunteer,
If your rights to speak your beliefs are truly being abridged then I support your efforts to restore them, but not enforce them in the arena of public policy.
I don't believe atheism or humanism or any ism is being forced on anyone. A lack of religious training in public schools is not taught atheism or humanism.
As an adult I will not abide by anybody elses standard of dress, conduct, schedule, grooming or marital relations, income distribution, gender roles, or anything else and as long as I conduct myself in a civilized manner that doesn't abridge someone else rights it is nobody elses business what I do.
I remember all those ridiculous blue laws that forbid the buying of all sorts of silly things on Sundays, like blenders, and furniture and some kinds of food, not to mention alcohol...as if getting stone drunk and ramming your car into a telephone pole was somehow different on Sunday than it was on Saturday or making a T-shirt was somehow more appropriate on Monday.
I went to elementary school in the late 60s and early 70s and other than the occaisional morning prayer from a particularly devout teacher there was never religious training and this is in the heart of the southern bible belt. Now that those kids are grown and in their 40s religion is more popular than ever there. I think all the hubbub about secular humanism is just hot air quite spouted by what seem to be otherwise intelligent people....
Where is all this secular humanism everyone says is taking over the world, because I haven't seen any of it.
In college no one makes you take certain classes or professors. If your kid doesn't like the professors ideas of even the color of his shoes tell him to drop the class.
You can still put your kid in a relgious school or take them to Sunday school on the weekend.