Religion and Political Representation

I was reading an article about how Black Christians are overwhelmingly leaving white Evangelical churches based on the positions many white Evangelical pastors have supported on social and political issues. "Black congregants — as recounted by people in Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Fort Worth and elsewhere — had already grown uneasy in recent years as they watched their white pastors fail to address police shootings of African-Americans. They heard prayers for Paris, for Brussels, for law enforcement; they heard that one should keep one’s eyes on the kingdom, that the church was colorblind, and that talk of racial injustice was divisive, not a matter of the gospel. There was still some hope that this stemmed from an obliviousness rather than some deeper disconnect."

For those of you who attend houses of worship, do your religious leaders address political and social issues? Do you personally have the expectation that they should? Are there certain messages they (inadvertantly or not) emphasize more than others? Or do you believe these issues should remain separate?