Thank you, my friend SSG Robert Mark Odom for posting.
1. The Separation of Church and State is not specified in the constitution. It was believed to be first used in a letter by Thomas Jefferson on January 1, 1802 addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper.
2. The Constitution advocates Freedom of religion. It was drafted at a time when many nation states had state religions. The founding fathers wanted to ensure there never would be state religion. They never dreamed that elected and appointed officials would be urged let alone mandated to leave their faith at home.
3. Congress and the Supreme Court openly display indications of faith in Judeo-Christian history.
The U.S. Senate has an office of Chaplain and so does the US House of Representatives
4. "The Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives is the officer of the United States House of Representatives responsible for beginning each day's proceedings with a prayer."
5. Officials are sworn in with their hand on book holy to whatever their faith is be it Christian, Jewish or Muslim or absence of faith for atheist/agnostic.
6. Certainly no office of government [Federal, State or Territory] can mandate a faith or absence of faith for employees let alone citizens.

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