http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008460349_apheavenlysecurity.html?referrer=digg
This past Tuesday, a group of Athiests filled a lawsuit againt the State of Kentucky regarding the removal of a line within the codes of the Homeland Security which simply states that the presence of god is needed to bring about the safety of all the state’s inhabitants. The plaque, posted at the Kentucky Emergency Operations Center in Frankfort, includes the Bible verse: “Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
“It is one of the most egregiously and breathtakingly unconstitutional actions by a state legislature that I’ve ever seen,” said Edwin F. Kagin, national legal director of Parsippany, N.J.-based American Atheists Inc. In the list of tasks that are enscribed within what will be changed come the new decade, the separation between church and state surely will be one of the greatest. Nothing is ever certain, as shown by the Iraq war, and so even though there needs to be a separation between religious details and that of state and government agencies, nothing is certain. If the future, possiblities can always arise, however with the growing number of athiest people within this nation, it seems very unikely that a monumental declaration of the separation between church and state will ever be overturned. However, what we can still count on is that along the line of racists, sexism, and ratial profiling, this enticing topic will continue to rattle peoples cages for many, many years to come.
