| | Americans United: Family Ties |
 | | Speaking at the March 18 luncheon, the Texas Republican called for greater church involvement in politics, citing a House bill he supports that would revise the federal tax law ban on electioneering by tax-exempt groups and allow pulpit endorsements of political candidates. |
 | | He said he was at a meeting of the Republican House and Senate leadership the previous week and one prominent concern was “looking at ways to get their hands around the court.” Impeachment, he said, hasn’t worked well in the past. |
 | | Bishop Wellington Boone, the only African American on the speakers list (and virtually the only one at the conference), dismissed the idea of church-state separation as unbiblical, insisting that “God owns the church and state.” He said he operates from a “biblical worldview,” and he seems to see his opponents as agents of Satan. |
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