You know, considering the smashing job government has done with other social issues such as poverty, vice and the family, you'd think that religious people would run screaming from any suggestion that the government get involved, in any way, with religion.
Just look at what state religion and a tight church integration with the state has done in Denmark. There's little religion left there.
Looking at history I've noticed that a tight integration of church and state either results in theocratic terror and subjugation of the people to the tenets of that religion, or practical disappearance of the church as it is subjugated to the state. Neither is desirable.