Jon – Yes, those are the facts which I don’t dispute. You should be directing your “peace”ful comments to Mr. Barton who makes mountains out of molehills.
You appear to have some history training, so it is surprising that you would consider a fact irrelevant. Barton claims Jefferson started the church and invited the Marine band. There is no evidence for either claim. Real historians care about matters like that.
As an aside and as a psychologist, I have to laugh at a kind reaction formation that allows people to call you names and then sign off with noble sounding words like “peace.”

Omar – What is the proof that he did approve and brought the Marine Band in? Actually, we do have evidence that you bought the pens. You just wrote it down. Jefferson did not do that. Nor did anybody else. We know that the band was there but that is what we know. We do know that the chaplains were in charge of the services so I suppose there is some circumstantial evidence that they asked the band to play. But we don’t know. What I do know is that it is misleading to tell an audience that Jefferson did something we don’t know that he did.