Come to Jesus... But you'd better vote for Bush!

Perhaps because George W.'s brain has such a limited capacity for long-term storage of facts and figures, the RNC is currently seeking 1600 religious congregations in Pennsylvania as grassroots campaign bases for campaign organizing and distribution of campaign materials.

Drat! Those pesky "Liberal Groups" always seem to spoil the RNC's fun! There they go again! Citing our country's historical separation of church and state!

From The New York Times:

Bush Campaign Seeks Help From Thousands of Congregations
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Published: June 3, 2004

The Bush campaign is seeking to enlist thousands of religious congregations around the country in distributing campaign information and registering voters, according to an e-mail message sent to many members of the clergy and others in Pennsylvania.

Liberal groups charged that the effort invited violations of the separation of church and state and jeopardized the tax-exempt status of churches that cooperated. Some socially conservative church leaders also said they would advise pastors against participating in such a partisan effort.

But Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for the Bush administration, said "people of faith have as much right to participate in the political process as any other community" and that the e-mail message was about "building the most sophisticated grass-roots presidential campaign in the country's history."

In the message, dated early Tuesday afternoon, Luke Bernstein, coalitions coordinator for the Bush campaign in Pennsylvania, wrote: "The Bush-Cheney '04 national headquarters in Virginia has asked us to identify 1,600 `Friendly Congregations' in Pennsylvania where voters friendly to President Bush might gather on a regular basis."

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