text: I agree Dejain.  The caveat I might add is that there are many Christians who also want a separation of church and state but for different reasons perhaps?     I read many church leaders who have no intention of making references to political issues even under new looser guidelines.   
  
  Why create partisan tensions when your message is about finding a more generous love for others, including those quite unlike you.   That's not the goal of all church's, but I can tell you it's one of the goals of many church's.   *Pat Robertson is not speaking for all Christian teachers by any means. 
  
  While you are rightly concerned about the political system being coopted by a particular Brand of church, some churches are equally concerned about mixing messages of human political and eternal kingdoms being of equal value.   
  
   Church's will continue to message their congregational values and those can influence their political bias.   No rule of separation can legislate one's thinking.