Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution.
Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.
Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.
You wonder why we're having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we've asked for it. We've taken prayer out of school.
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.