There is no "law" in the first amendment that states there has to be a separation of church and state. This was actually written in a letter from Thomas Jefferson and picked up on somewhere in history. The Founders did not want a state run church. Remember, they came from a country in which you had to belong to the Church of England to belong to parliament. You can bet that the earliest schools had references to God and also the Bible. Historians are now trying to remake the Founders into secular people when they believed: "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God." -George Washington