What gets church more disturbed — US state pomp (8)
I believe the answer is:
ceremony
'pomp' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'what gets church more disturbed us state' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'church' could be 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England) and 'ce' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'more' is 'remo' which is present in the answer.
'state' could be 'ny' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'ny' is found within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
(Other definitions for ceremony that I've seen before include "Kind of ritual - don't stand on it" , "Event of ritual significance" , "Ritual procedure" , "Ritual celebration" , "Formal service" .)