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America is not a Christian nation, nor has it ever been. That is the purpose of freedom of religion, and it is the point of Jefferson's "wall of separation" between religion and state.
Anyone who calls the US a Christian nation is, for certain, 1) A fundamentalist nutbag, and 2) a Christian. Because I assure you, we non-Christians don't consider it a Christian nation, and it pisses us off pretty good when people call it that.
BTW, as for the ACLU et al., I agree that sometimes they can be a little heavy-handed in trying to keep religion out of the public sphere. But IMO, better they do so, and sometimes do so clumsily, than allow the proliferation of religious displays in public which can rapidly downspiral into grey areas between acceptable and offensive. For example, the city having displays for Xmas, Chanukah, and Solstice (along with any other religion's holidays that might fall around now)? I have no problem. The city's Xmas display being a Nativity scene with a banner that reads "Born Is The King of Israel"? Kind of offensive. Better to draw the line widely than to draw it so narrowly that later one has to figure out just where it falls. As long as we're all free to do our religious things to the Nth degree of loud, unsubtle, and proud, on private property, in our own homes and places of worship, I'm good.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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