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Fine! Throw all those korans at Gitmo in the ocean. No more federally funded prayer beads or rugs either.

I have no problem with this. I'm an atheist myself and I don't want my tax dollars used to spread Christianity. Make me do so and you might as well call my tax dollars jizya, the majority taxing the minority to pay for the propagation of it's own religion. If they want to privately fund the program, be my guest. But this program is unconstitutional not just on church/state grounds but also because the Constitution does not give the fed the authority to fund such a program.

There is no such thing as the separation of church and state in the Constitution.

the Constitution does not give the fed the authority to fund such a program.

On this we can agree!
It also does not give the federal government the authority to:

-give billions of American tax-payer dollars to Africa to allegedly fight AIDS.
-steal money from the American people to bail out invaders and idiots who made bad mortgage loans.
-force tax-payer funded commie health care on everyone IN the country.
-dictate what I may or may not eat.
-fund alledged "research" projects, aka grants, that will lead to the downfall of our country.
-confiscate private property.
-institute a progressive income tax.
-institute a socialist/communist retirement system, forcing others to fund someone else's retirement.
-fund "public" radio and tv. Let those that watch, pay.
-interfere with private industry by dictating wages and benefits.
-establish and finance government forced re-education camps, aka public schools.
-make across the board laws, based on phoney research, for my own good.
-deny free speech, which includes prayer, where ever I decide to do so.
-deny my right to keep and bear arms.

Out of time...must go. Feel free to add to the list.

But this program is unconstitutional not just on church/state grounds but also because the Constitution does not give the fed the authority to fund such a program.

First, this program was state funded. Second, let's follow that logic to its finish: How much of the current federal budget should be eliminated as unconstitutional?

As for constitutionality, Thomas Jefferson disagrees. See post 24.