From "Lots Wife"

Consider the case of American atheist Madalyn Murry, who has suffered terrible retribution at the hands of Christians for demanding her rights, as laid down in the American Constitution.

The trouble started when her eldest son Bill (then 14) complained of the daily prayers he was forced to recite each morning at school.

For the next three years she fought a losing battle to stop prayers being read in public schools.

She received hundreds of letters weekly containing the most unbelievable obscenities, and threatening her life.

Her son Bill was beaten up, by gangs of Catholic adolescents, well over 100 times in three years. Her younger son, aged 9, is having nightmares because of frequent assaults. While he was being interviewed by a reporter, a school bus went by, and every child stuck his head out of the window and shouted "Commie! Commie! Commie!"