[Conspiracy Guy]

On Friday, Land said: "It's one thing for a church member motivated by exhortations to exercise his Christian citizenship to go out and decide to work on the Bush campaign or the Kerry campaign. It's another and totally inappropriate thing for a political campaign to ask workers who may be church members to provide church member information through the use of directories to solicit partisan support."

Poppycock!

[Porterville]

Yeah right, BAPTIST-DEMOCRATS angry at Bush; and that is all I'm going to say- you make the connection.

[worrywart]

"I suspect that this will rub a lot of pastors' fur the wrong way."

Shocked this morning to find out my pastor has fur.

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[saleman]

Many black churches are extremely involved in politics. How many times have I seen the Rev Jackson speaking at churches? Of course, nothing he said or did had any political slant to it. He was just preaching.

[Sweet Hour of Prayer]

Didn't Kerry rally the AME (African, Methodist, Episcopal) church awhile back? The glaring double-standard that democrats enjoy - openly campaigning at liberal black churches, homosexual churches and the handful of mainstream denomination churches that have slipped into heresy, and if a Republican so much as attends a national conference, Barry Lynn is out to scream separation of Church and state. The funny thing is, most media folks know so little about christianity that they REALLY believe these liberal religious folks represent the body of Christianity. Hillary campaigning from a Catholic pulpit, Clinton campaigning from liberal Baptist churches - never received any reprimand.

Democrats = Abortion, Gay marriage, homosexual rights, government controlled medical care, and taking money from the middle-class to subsidize the lower-class... for the greater good.

[atomicpossum]

Other religious organizations also criticized the document as inappropriate, suggesting that it could jeopardize churches' tax-exempt status by involving them in partisan politics.

If you're gonna try to enforce that, it damn well better go both ways.

[Alia]

Frankly, I don't see what the problem is. Churches can decline to do so. Other churches might put it on their bulletin boards.

[jwalsh07]

Is this comedy?

Democrats have been campaigning from the puplit as long as I've been alive and whats more I could care less.

[streetpreacher]

More Baptist self-contradicting church/state separation/political activism nonsense...

[curtking]

Dear Dr. Land,

When Barry Lynn agrees with you, you're wrong.

[Coop]

Get over it, whiny Baptists.

[Kuksool]

[The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the effort "is a shameless attempt to misuse and abuse churches for partisan political ends." Lynn said his organization would be "watching closely to see how this plays out in the pews."

The Rev. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, a Washington advocacy group that has been critical of the Christian right, said the document was "totally inappropriate."]

I am waiting for these Commies to condemn RATS campaigning in liberal churches.