Culture war in a nutshell

In Atlanta, a judge has ruled that a sticker inserted in science books proclaiming that evolution was "a theory, not a fact" somehow rises to the level of establishing religion in the school district. Judges have been doing this for years, but we rarely get the details of how many people it takes to make this type of thing happen. Well, the AP slipped this time, and the following paragraph appears in the article.

The schools added the stickers after more than 2,000 parents complained the textbooks presented evolution as fact, without mentioning rival ideas about the beginnings of life. Six parents of students and the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) then sued, contending the disclaimers violated the separation of church and state.

So 2,000 parents complain about there being not a single mention of creationism and get a sticker put in the textbooks explaining that evolution is a theory, and not a fact. Then a whopping 6 parents get the ACLU involved and are able to convince (though I doubt it took much) a judge that the sticker represents the establishment of religion; they may use the term "separation of church and state," but that's not the constitutional basis for challenges, or shouldn't be, at least.