[WoodstockCat]

Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the conservative American Center for Law and Justice, advised in mailings to 45,000 churches that their clergy should avoid endorsing a candidate by name from the pulpit. Other than that, "we told them they were absolutely free and should encourage their people to vote their convictions," he said.

Here is the key difference in how liberals have approached the "values" issue.

Bush didn't go into pulpits weekends before election day and preach about his values, he lived them.

Evangelicals don't want a politician in the pulpit, we wants preachers who draw the lines on good and evil starkly and biblically.

[Coldwater Creek]

Exactly!