History speaks above the prattle of secular humanism. This was the message delivered by the Kentucky supreme Court, who has declined to hear a case attacking the Kentucky Homeland Security Act for its reference to dependence on “Almighty God” as vital to the security of the Commonwealth. The decision was almost entirely overlooked by the news media, except local (expectedly biased) news reports from the Courier-Journal and Lexington Herald. Their reports quoted the disappointment of the American atheists, and erroneously called the Homeland Security Act “mere lip service to a commonly held belief in God.”

In the court case of American Atheists vs. the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Col. Ron Ray and First Principles Press filed a brief with the Kentucky Court of Appeals representing 35 Kentucky Senators and 96 State Representatives, defending the historic and Constitutional reference to God. Colonel Ray, an expert in historical and Constitutional law, served as Military Historian and Deputy Director of Field Operations for the U.S. Marine Corps Historic Center in Washington, D.C. Colonel Ray defended the Kentucky General Assembly on the basis of our history. He states:

“This action of the legislature is entirely consistent with more than 500 years of America’s official and permanent history in the creation and preservation of the Republic. These ‘organic utterances’ of the official branches of civil government have always recognized the Creator and this law is a specific application of America’s Official National Motto, “In God We Trust,” which no court has ever overturned, despite multiple efforts of those hostile to these self-evident truths”....