Pick your battles

there are a lot of serious issues in the world today. Before it got lost in cyber netherworld, I typed a fairly emotional post about the Susan G. Komen foundation and one of my coworker's efforts to raise money for it, about watching everything Mom went through in her two bouts with it. For me, breast cancer hits close to home, and trying to get it funded and cured is important. That is a battle worth fighting.
THe events in Iran, Korea, Iraq, South Africa, South American, Israel, China, Cuba, and so forth are serious issues that need to be looked at, discussed, and acted on...yes, even if that means conflict.
What a license plate says? I am not real sure that is a battle that needs to be fought. To me, it is a lot like the Fish wars.
Just in case you are not familiar with the Fish wars, a little background. ICTHYS, which I have been told is Greek for fish, was a symbol of early Chirstianity. While the Roman authorities were running around happily killing ever Christian they could get their hands on, the Christians devised a means of communicating who they were. They reputadly would draw a smile on the ground with their foot. Another believer could, starting at one point of the smile, draw an inverted smile which would look like a fish, or Icthys, which had some double-entendre with the name Jesus. If fascinated by symbology, you could look this up in about 30 seconds doing a Google search on Icthys. Actually, here, let me do that for you:
http://www.dim.com/~randl/icthus.htm
Well, the symbol survived and enlarged. Lo and behold, a couple millenium later cars were invented. People being people, bumper stickers came along. Then people started putting metallic decorations on cars...including some, who9 wishing to express their faith, dropped the Icthys fish on there.
This irritated Darwinists who responded by dropping feet on the fish. Personally, I thought it was pretty funny, although I am about as far from a Darwinist as you can get. I have been reading with amusement the finding of light from the Big Bang (which, by the way, stands more as proof of God than Darwinism according to such scientists as Einstein and Hubbell) in which they have narrowed down when it happened to between 200 and 400 million years ago. Hey, at least they are getting close...
Anyway, this infuriated numerous believers. They were offended (wrongly, in my eyes, but hey...their picnic, they choose which ants take their food) so they sought a way to take their symbol back. And they found it. They put the Greek letters inside the fish.
Well, if you wath, nowadays I see those fish with fangs (vampires), space alien symbology and all sorts of other things. And you know something? To this day I do not know a single person who has become a Christian, Darwinist, vampire, alien believer or anything else because they saw that symbol on the car. And if I did meet someone who had, they would have to be so feebleminded I really have no interest in talking to them anyway.
Not so for everyone. Apparently some people are afraid of being swayed by what they see. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11877665/
How exactly would it violate the First Amendment to actually put something like that out there? Again, this simply is not a battle worth fighting, for either side. Oh, hey, I just saw a license plate for Crater Lake....if you will excuse me, I need to go visit every dormant volcano in the U.S.