Excellent history and thinking about the separation of church and state.

One interesting topic to explore which the Atlantic brought up not too long ago, is that much of the impetus for U.S. Evangelical entanglement with politics in the mid and late 20th century had to do with struggling to uphold institutional racism.

Bob Jones, for example. And Jerry Falwell, who later softened his views, first rose to Evangelical prominence on the strength of his public racism.

The Moral Majority was born from the ashes of the great Evangelical struggle to maintain legal segregation.