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My "unalienable" (not inalienable) rights include Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness.

Freedom of religion is not an unalienable right, but all the same it is a right we have embraced in our country. Our 1st Amendment protects that.

Ah, are you of the opinion that Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness your only unlaienable rights?
Did you forget this?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,"

Do you now see that those are not the only unalienable rights?
Further, Isn't it clear where the rights originated, that the Constitution was instituted to secure?
Are you aware of the concerns of some of the Framers about including a Bill of Rights?
Do you understand the purpose of and the principle supporting the Ninth Ammendment?

Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

So how did that refute what I said?

And freedom of religion is a right specifically mentioned in our Constitution, a right "incorporated" by the US Supreme Court, and not in any way unalienable, as seen throughout history, as even seen in our country.

Government has chosen to endorse religion in this case. The Courts have struck them down. Sorry that you don't like it, but it's only the things that are disliked that are protected by the Constitution. Popular speech and popular religions don't need protecting--just the unpopular things.

I think you're all missing the point. NOWHERE in the Constitution does it state that a person has a right to a taxpayer-funded education. Yet, the government is forcibly taking money from people to fund these indoctrination centers. Now, if a teacher - who is essentially a paid representative of the government - is permitted to LEAD a class in a prayer (i.e. "pledge" containing the words "under God" that were never in the original version), then the government is promoting and endorsing religion and indoctrinating children in religion without regard to a parent's wishes and without the approval of nonreligious taxpayers.

Last I checked, the nonreligious weren't exempt from paying school taxes.