In a recent column for USA Today, Boston University religion professor Stephen Prothero argues that public schools should do away with giving students days off for religious holidays because honoring Christian holidays in this manner is unfair to other religions. As I read the First Amendment, writes Prothero, using taxpayer dollars to prop up Christianity and Judaism at the expense of Hinduism is unconstitutional, whether the number of parents who wont send their children to school on [the Hindu festival of] Diwali totals 80 or 800. Prothero suggests that those who agree with him should clamor to have every religious...