Church and State: Headed for a Make-Up?

Maybe it's just me, but I think that it's time for church and state to start seeing other people. I mean, they've been theoretically seperated for years now. At best, they had a magical week together in Paris, and now it's time to move on. You know, give up the ghost and spend their lives making someone else miserable.

Don't get me wrong. I don't have anything against conservative Christians. I don't have anything more against conservative Christians than your average east coast-turned-Texan lesbian fond of international travel and expressing what she thinks. Truthfully, sometimes I use "unfriendly" words to do so, words like "fascist" and "national socialism revisited" and "moral perversion," but they're always apt. I make it a point not to use the wrong words; I'm not really a vocabulary snob so much as I'm obsessive-compulsive about making sure that I always use the right words. I believe that conservative Christians have just as much right to be horribly misguided as anyone else, as long as it doesn't destroy the life or karma of anyone but themselves. Of course, I don't remember the last time a group of hostile agnostics bombed an abortion clinic, or the last time some militant Taoists decided to make school children cry by telling them that they're going to hell if they don't sign their name at the bottom of a spiritual contract that they're legally (or morally, at least) too young to comprehend. I mean, what is this, the Godfather? "Either your brains or your signature are going to be at the bottom of that contract..." Sign here, or go to hell. Wow. Remind me not to hire them as my morale-boosters. I suppose (sadly) that Machiavellianism is alive and well in the Bible Belt.