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Every major social movement in American history has been preached from pulpits. The Revolution, Abolition, Manifest Destiny, Prohibition, the Civil Rights movement...you name it, churches were in the thick of it.

You think the organized denominations are like the pulpits of old? You are naive if you think the United Methodist Church has any relationship to the old circuit riding preachers of the Lorenzo Dow era. Head on out to the Methodist News webpage and take a look at them. The Denominations are out on Vieques getting arrested, visiting Fidel to try and get Elian shipped back, etc., etc. Why do you want that? What does that have to do with good politics? What does it have to do with God?

They can get involved in this worldly political correct crap if they want. But they should pay their taxes if they want to do so.

You want all civic organizations under the thumb of the state, do you? Every knee must bend? First thing rabid socialists do when they get power is go after religion. It is a competing faith. The Bolsheviks put separation of church and state in their 1918 constitution. They banned religious schools. Then they taxed churches. They then dynamited or closed 50,000 of them. While that was going on, they murdered tens of millions of believers.

Doesn't matter to me what religious people say. What matters is they have the right to say it without the government trying to shut them up. And that is what the left in America has been trying to do for the last 50 years.