It doesn't really matter if moondog is offended or not. It comes down to what he said in his previous post:

"Hey, we're all good, God-fearing Americans here, let's just have a little prayer to ask God to bless us this meeting."

"Hey, we're all good Christians here, we don't want any of our kids going to hell, let's just leave their sex education at 'don't have it' and leave it at that"

"Let's have our town fair at the church, since we all go there on Sundays anyway, right? Father Tom says he knows a nice Christian Rock band that can play for us."

"We have 5,000 dollars extra in the budget this year, what shall we do with it? Hm, hm, oh, here's a great idea from Mrs Smith, why not give it to the school so they can put on a really great Passion Play this year?"

I realize that these are not apocalyptic scenarios (I'm not trying to make a slippery slope argument, although I'm sure you can see how this attitude could become much grimmer with proper stimulus). But all of those statements I just threw out are examples of something that would lend strength to the idea that "our town" is solely made up of devout Christians, and that's where our priorities lie.

So yeah, again- the main concern isn't that people are being "forced to pray." It's that having a prayer at the start of a government function creates an atmosphere of exclusion where there shouldn't be one, and grants an unconscious moral authority to religion.

(Please don't counter with "that's ridiculous, no one is being excluded."