Excerpt from a Yahoo! News (via Washington Post)
news article:
Quote:
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The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has sent a detailed plan of action to religious volunteers across the country asking them to turn over church directories to the campaign, distribute issue guides in their churches and persuade their pastors to hold voter registration drives.
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Is this really legal? It seems borderline unethical, at the very least. Christian leaders, and Christians in general, are essentially being religiously blackmailed into supporting the Bush campaign. Maybe it's just the fact that I see religion being used to manipulate people so bloody often, and to such extremes, that this sort of thing just doesn't sit right... Particularly when being used to re-elect someone who I find to be reprehensible.
Of course, I don't think I'd be comfortable with any Bush adversaries doing something like this, either. It smacks of abuse of power, seems unspeakbaly manipulative, and just
feels wrong.