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To: EternalVigilance

The fact that parishoners would choose to list themselves in a public directory indicates that they embrace a shared fellowship of faith, interest and community with the flock.

I see no reason that a list of citizens who have a set of desired political priorities and outcomes shouldn't be given information on a Presidential candidate's record of performance, and his plan going forward, in the pursuit of those priorities. Christians should know about the President's faith based initiatives, how he's confronted and influenced the despicable abortion cult, his pro-family successes etc. Folks who are secure and welcoming enough to list themselves in a church directory would want to know these things. They're involved.

I see no problem with this, because I am confident that any marketing approach the Bush/Cheney team will employ will be respectful, measured and useful to most all who are engaged. The pastor should put a note in his bulletin or make comments from the pulpit about giving the information away, and give any parishoners who are opposed an opportunity to be removed from the list.

It's really no different than the GOP using Chamber of Commerce membership lists as a prospecting tool. NRA lists. Subscriber lists to WSJ.

It's just marketing your message to a presumably interested voter. The message cultivates support. Ideological support often translates to financial support. You know how it goes. It's outreach to legitimately interested parties.


81 posted on 07/03/2004 6:18:55 AM PDT by Barlowmaker
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To: Barlowmaker; mollynme; Delphinium; narses; Aquinasfan; Polycarp IV
Representative government has more than a little to do with Christianity. An investigation of how Magna Carta originated and of the authors would illuminate this. Given that the American version of constitutional republicanism grew out of the parliamentary system, so also with Parliament and its relation to Christianity.

On Parliament itself:

Buildings have occupied the site since at least Saxon times, though the oldest buildings still in existence date from about 1097. Edward the Confessor established the origins of the present buildings by building a royal palace on the site from 1050, and until 1529 Westminster was the main London residence of successive monarchs. A fire in that year caused Henry VIII to decamp from the Privy Palace at the south end of the site, to the Palace of Whitehall. Despite this, it remains a royal palace to this day.

On January 20, 1295 the first meeting of the first English parliament was conducted here, and - with some short vacations - has sat here ever since, The House of Commons made its first permanent home in St Stephen's Chapel, a part of the palace.


84 posted on 07/03/2004 7:13:10 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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