What big mistake did the Backyard Skeptics, an atheist group, make in Costa Mesa, California?

great2beme

Could it be putting up a billboard with a quote they thought was Thomas Jefferson? http://www.ocregister.com/news/jefferson-323913-quote-one.html Oct 27 11, 11:18 PM

Humanist

They used the wrong quote. Here's the definitive one: Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. -- Thomas Jefferson, to Danbury Baptists, 1802. This is his second kown use of the term "wall of separation," here quoting his own use in the Danbury Baptist letter. This wording of the original was several times upheld by the Supreme Court as an accurate description of the Establishment Clause: Reynolds (98 US at 164, 1879); Everson (330 US at 59, 1947); McCollum (333 US at 232, 1948) Chevy Oct 28 11, 6:33 AM