the only thing the leaders really worry about.

Almost all of the locals where I live attend various churches. Its a social thing as well as getting decent education for the kids as the public schools are in a death march to the bottom here. We have county run public schools that have lost their accrediation. The private schools were started as a backlash to integration, now they are integrated and staffed with people wanting to teach. RE is an afterthought in many of them.
thanx,
bill