OK, I’m a little conflicted about this story. I totally support the separation of church and state (no such thing as a Christian nation, Jesus said he’s kingdom isn’t of this world, can’t impose Christian morality on unbeliever, blah, blah, blah) but I have to say that I think what this state representative did was pretty cool:

An atheists-rights group is suing the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security because state law requires the agency to stress “dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth.”
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The requirement to credit God for Kentucky’s protection was tucked into 2006 homeland security legislation by state Rep. Tom Riner, D-Louisville, a Southern Baptist minister.
“This is recognition that government alone cannot guarantee the perfect safety of the people of Kentucky,” Riner said last week.
Riner said he expects Homeland Security to include language recognizing God’s benevolent protection in its official reports and other materials — sometimes the agency does, and sometimes it doesn’t — and to maintain a plaque with that message at the state’s Emergency Operations Center in Frankfort.

Funny that it was Democrat who did it! I cause you guys have theocrats too, huh? 🙂
And the atheists are suing for pain and suffering knowing that a religious kook is crafting laws regarding the safety of the public:

“Plaintiffs also suffer anxiety from the belief that the existence of these unconstitutional laws suggest that their very safety as residents of Kentucky may be in the hands of fanatics, traitors or fools,” according to the suit.

Calm down, atheists. The Lord’s protected you thus far, hasn’t he?
BTW, if we remove the mention of God from all aspects of public life, isn’t that just promoting atheism? I doubt the founding fathers would have been too supportive of removing God from all aspects of public life because his name is all over the place (documents, prayers, monuments, buildings, etc.)
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