church and politics

Right now I am waiting in an airport. I will soon be home for the holidays. I'm glad that I brought my laptop to the airport this time. I was just browsing through my favorite sites and blogs when I came across this

At first I thought it was a little ironic. We try so hard to keep religion out of our politics, but we don't hesitate to throw our politics into religion. I sent a link to my brother and he was surprised. I told him I had heard of this before and that a friend of mine actually voted in a church this year. Then I nearly fell off my chair when I read the caption below the picture.
" 'Intermingling of Church and State," Boise, Idaho, anonymous photographer, 2006.' "