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I was reading through this old Catholic Newspaper (well only a month old) and I came across an article discussing how the U.S. Postal service is going to issue a stamp to honor the humanitarian work of Mother Teresa.

This isn't without controversy, the Freedom from Religion Foundation is against this because they believe this goes against restrictions dealing with honoring religious institutions or those whose achievement are associated with any religious beliefs.

For those of you who don't know, Mother Teresa has received both the Nobel Peace Prize and the U.S. Congressional Medal of Freedom. I'm not sure how things have played out since February but it seems like M.T. is being discriminated against by the Freedom from Religion Foundation because of her religious background. What do you all think about this?

I heard about this too. I cant believe they're boycotting Mother Teresa...Really? REALLY!?
Yes she was Catholic, but she is also someone who we should all aspire to be like. If there was ever any 2 people with seats right beside God, it's her and Gandhi. Just my opinion.

And we already have religious stamps.
Eid stamps year round for Muslims. Minora stamps for the Jews. And crap loads of Christian stamps around Christmas time.

But they aren't objecting to Mother Teresa being on a stamp because they think she's a monster, they're critical of her because she's religious...that's the problem here. I think EternallyBlue summed it up well enough the separation between church and state is being taken to the extremes so that it is becoming a negative influence on society and not a positive one helping to aid our freedom of religion.