This is the short version of a longer video, for those who just want me to get right to the point.

There is widespread misunderstanding about the so-called, [quote]"constitutional separation of church and state"[unquote].  Here is what the United States Constitution recites:

First Amendment:  "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."

That is what it says, and all it says on the matter.

Do you remember your American history and government that you learned in high school?  The U.S. Constitution defines three branches of the U.S. government, the Executive branch, which is the president, the Legislative branch, which is Congress, and the Judicial branch, which is the Supreme Court and other federal courts.  Congress makes the laws, the courts interpret the laws Congress makes, and the president doesn't do either.

Do you remember your English grammar that you learned in high school? We don't need to be lawyers.  Let's parse the text, word by word, to make sure we get it right:

"Congress," noun, subject of verb, and the subject of the whole sentence, "shall," auxiliary verb, "make," verb, forming a verb phrase, future tense, active voice, "no," quantifying determiner, "law," noun, forming a noun phrase, the object of the verb, "respecting," verb participle used as a qualifier, "an," indefinite article, "establishment," noun, object of the participle, forming a participial phrase, "of," preposition, "religion," object of the preposition, forming a prepositional phrase, "or," coordinating conjunction, "prohibiting," verb participle, "the" definite article, "free," adjective, "exercise," noun, "thereof," adverb, forming a participial phrase.  Let's stop there.

The subject is "Congress."  It is not the courts, not the public schools, not another government employer, not a public monument or building, not anything else.  "Congress."  The object is "law." "Congress shall make no law..."  the rest of the sentence is a subordinate, or dependent, clause, subordinate to "Congress shall make no law," which means it all pertains to Congress making a law.  The question at hand is, did Congress make a law?  If not, then we are done.  If so, then we would examine that law which Congress made or is in the process of making.

Can the courts read English?

Where is the phrase, [quote]"separation of church and state"[unquote]. It is not in the constitution.  Anywhere.  There is no [quote]"constitutional separation of church and state"[unquote] in the constitution.  Where did we get it from?  We got it from a private letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut.  The Baptists at the time were a minority and were persecuted by the Congregationalists, who evolved from the early American Puritan settlers.  The Baptists wanted a sympathetic reply from the president, which they expected to get, since he was a deist and not even a Christian, that the government would treat them with equal favor.

They knew the president had no legislative power.  Read what they wrote.  They knew the constitution.  They said,  "Sir, we are sensible that the president of the United States is not the national legislator...."

Jefferson wrote back to them sympathetically.  Buried in his private letter he commented, providing his private opinion of the First Amendment, saying, "thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."

There you have it.  President Jefferson, with no legislative or judicial authority, made a personal, private comment to the Baptists in reply.

So now, after all the unconstitutional bullying by atheistic and other special interest groups is said and done, you actually have a constitutional right to practice your religion in your capacity as a public schoolteacher, a government employee, or anything else.  Read from the Bible, pray to God, put a religious monument on government property, do whatever you want, knowing that the U.S. Constitutional Bill of Rights protects your right to do so.