>>>>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?
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>Have you ever turned on a TV on Sunday morning? Even out here in loony California they're on nearly every local channel.

It's been a while. Once in a while I find myself in the car early on a Sunday morning, on the way to some volleyball tournament, and actually seek out the Bible thumper stations. I find them entertaining. "They're going, I said they're going to HELL!" -- meaning it literally.