Separation of church & state

The phrase "separation of church and state" is not in the Constitution. It stemmed from a personal letter of Thomas Jefferson in which he used the phrase. The Constitution requires that there be no state (government) religion, and simultaneously, that the state (government) does not restrict the free exercise thereof. There's was to be no "American" church as there was an "Anglican" church. Per the Bill of Rights, Amendment I:

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.

There is NOTHING that prohibits the state from being religious and to be so in the context of its natural Judeo-christian tradition (one of its foundational pillars, by the way). The modern notion that this may "offend" some sensible souls who have a different world view, matters not one iota, so long as they aren't forced to adopt a "state religion" as a condition of citizenship and of its privileges. The interdict is there to allow and protect the freedom of worship for OTHER non-Jude-christian religions. NOT to stifle the expression within the halls of the state of the very religion upon which this state drew most of its inspiration.

The core fundamental Truth of this Nation (expressed with an eloquence shadowed by the potential for the gallows) is that our freedoms (endowed by our Creator) are ipso facto instilled in the citizens. These "freedoms" are deemed inalienable (i.e., incapable of being surrendered or transferred). The individual citizen then extends these rights to the individual state in which he/she lives. These states in turn empower the federal government. This is what all of our forefathers fought and died for. The Oath was to the Constitution, not to a federal government
of to a president.

The state/federal government works for us, we do not work for it. Citizens, through their States, created the Federal Government, not the other way around !!! The Bill of Rights, Amendment Ten states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”

So, here we have Alabama’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Judge Roy S. Moore struggling for Liberty and his personal faith in God, and the real Constitutional element is ignored by the mainstream. The truth in this situation now is no different than an earlier truth that split our Republic. The War Between The States (American Civil War) was fought for one thing and one thing only: STATE'S RIGHTS ! The current issue with Judge Moore should be framed as an issue of State's Rights. This fight over the Ten Commandments has little to do with religion and EVERYTHING to do with who determines our fate. Are we subjects of the FEDERAL CROWN or are we sovereign citizens within our own sovereign states?