>>Right. They realized the formerly big, bad federal government could be used to serve their ends.
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>I heard some big-$$$ reverend say, in a CNN interview, "I find that when you mix politics and religion, you tend to get politics.".
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>I understand there is a growing movement in the religious leadership community to extrct themselves from politics.
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I'll believe it when I see it. Some of these guys seem like as big attention junkies as politicians. How would they ever get on TV if they didn't involve themselves in politics?