by Martha Quillen I used to hate the idea of mixing politics and religion. I assumed politics were about public issues: schools, roads, disaster relief, regulatory agencies, courts, prisons, trade agreements…. And religion was about personal matters: What do I believe? What’s right? Wrong? Good? Or evil? Why am I here? What is my purpose? Whom should I trust? Associate with? Marry? And I just naturally assumed that most Americans didn’t want governments to make personal decisions for them. And that’s probably true. But as it turns out, a lot of citizens want their governments to control their neighbors’ personal ...