What an accurate assessment from both perspectives.

Conservatives typically praise religious activism on abortion and homosexuality but dismiss liberal clerics who offer theological insights on economics or social spending. Liberals love preachers to speak out for civil rights and economic justice. But they see "a church-state problem" the instant anyone in the clergy speaks out for vouchers or against abortion and stem cell research.

(From Why It's Right to Ask About Roberts's Faith by E.J. Dionne, Jr. in The Washington Post.)