You know, a secular person says that this is unconstitutional, and a religious person says "no" that's unconstitutional. The first clause of the First Amendment it states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." I'm not a lawyer, nor any interprator of the law, but to the best of my knowledge, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion..." that first part of that clause, simply means that there shall be no law favoring any religion. The word "respecting" means that. Another synonym would be "treat with special consideration," "high regards," or " high esteem." The reason why they have seperation of church and state is because if a religious person[s] makes its way to office in any branch and has complete control over it, then they can legislate any law they want, and from what I recall they go by what God tells them what to do. They might impose Old Testament laws, or Islamic laws, for example. Yet it doesn't necessarily mean that a legislator has to be a religious person to ratify it, to favor or "respect" that notion. Nobody--religious or nonreligious-- can impose religious laws.
The second clause, "...or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." yet means that they can practice any religion or beliefs, as long as Congress doesn't make a law respecting, or favoring a religion.
If this was truely a Christian nation, previously, why is it a democracy? I mean of course not all Christians are bad, and they prefer democracy because it's free; that's great. But you have these nuts that theocracy in this nation is rightious thing to have, and are willing to do anything to attain it. From what I know of...I guess you can call them real Christians, they say their place is in heaven--their theocratic government; they don't want anything of this plane. Alright, over the past century our moral values have changed, but the culture alters, and not everybody was a Christian. Who says everything has become worse? People who are not Christians have morals that they reflect upon.
Now our forfathers, except a few, were deists. They believed in a higher intelect, not specifically the Christian God. Now the ones who were actually Christains were George Washington, Paul Revere*, and a few others I cannot recall. Washington didn't oppose the democratic government. Hell, he was president of the convention that was debating and drafting the constitution.
Alright, now I need to shut up. Here is a link. http://www.4religious-right.info/introduction2.htm