Separation of church from state is NOT in the constitution....
The 1st Amendment directs the state cannot force you to practice a religion or prohibit you from practicing freely.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." (http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment)
This country was founded on Christianity & biblical principals:
President John Quincy Adams directly addresses the Ten Commandments -
"The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal code as well as a moral and religious code. These are laws essential to the existence of men in society and most of which have been enacted by every Nation which ever professed any code of laws. Vain indeed would be the search among the writings of secular history to find so broad, so complete and so solid a basis of morality as the Ten Commandments lay down."
Rep. Aderholt's successful "Ten Commandments" amendment, to H.R. 1501, the "Consequences for Juvenile Offenders Act of 1999, cites statements by the Framers' who believed it was the government's duty to encouraging religion, and in doing so it was "clearly not an unconstitutional establishment of religion."
(http://usgovinfo.about.com/
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