So, I'm going to complain more about lack of separation of church and state in this blog post. Texas and Texan government is definitely heavily religious. I'm assuming this is a result of the Spanish that once owned this land trying so hard to force Christian beliefs on everyone, including the Native Americans, with their priests, missionaries, and military. (The holiest way to spread the Gospel, of course)
The church is definitely in our government and laws. Our laws are corrupted and biased based on religious principles that may be incompatible with Constitutional beliefs, such as the belief that all men are created equal in our Constitution, except the clause that says except homosexuals, in our Bible. There are other aspects of our community religious beliefs always seem to try and weave their way back into, such as our schools and textbooks, whether or not we should keep "Under God" in our pledge of allegiance is still a common topic for debate.
Likewise, our government and politicians are definitely in our churches. Politicians often using church communities to summon and raise voters and funds. Which should be a red flag for prospective voters that would like to keep unbiased politicians out of office.
The two don't mix, and they don't for good reason, they are contradictory texts, and you can only have one, and our government definitely isn't going to pick the Bible over the Constitution. So why do we let religious beliefs influence our decisions anyway?