There's separation of church and state?

Christine O'Donnell, the new darling of the Tea Party, doesn't seem to grasp that the concept of separation of church and state is defined in the first amendment of the Constitution that she claims to love and revere and have studied so much. This exchange is from a debate yesterday with her opponent, Chris Coons:

Coons said private and parochial schools are free to teach creationism but that "religious doctrine doesn't belong in our public schools."

"Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?" O'Donnell asked him.

When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O'Donnell asked: "You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?" ....

"You actually audibly heard the crowd gasp," Widener University political scientist Wesley Leckrone said after the debate, adding that it raised questions about O'Donnell's grasp of the Constitution.

*Sigh*