Church and State Anyone?

Does the seperation of church and state apply in the United states anymore? The department of homeland security in Kentucky is now required to acknowlegde god in the defense of their state. What the hell is this? when did god become central to US defense policy in any state? i understand that us atheists are a minority in most of america, but this is the most egregious violation of the constitution in US history (except the Patriot act but thats neither here nor there). The state of KY is now showing that they believe in not a democracy in which anyone has the freedom to worship any being divine or mortal that they want, but a theocracy, in which the people have the freedom to be a conformist lamb who has no opinion except that which is given to them. Down this road lies the Puritan Societies of Colonial Massachusettes and even the dictatorships of the middle east which we claim to abhorr. This is a slippery slope in KY and knowing the love people in america have had for fundamentalism since the days of Nixon and Billy Sunday, it will be a long way down.