Creationists should not get equal time to teach the (non-existent) controversy, Catholics should not get equal time to spew lies about condoms being ineffective, or abortions causing cancer.

or pols telling us solar doesn't work, or that harvesting free energy from the wind is more expensive than getting it from nukes or gas or coal.

and if religious people help out in social issues they get kudos for that, and that alone, not because they scored brownie points with their religion for doing so and demand recognition more for that than the noble action itself, which needs no further justification than simple humanity.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty