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Church Leaders Worried Over GOP Roster Use
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Jul 29, 2004 01:10pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, July 29, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Church Leaders Worried Over GOP Roster Use
The Honolulu Advertiser
Republican efforts to obtain church rosters from Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics who support President Bush have alienated some of the very people the GOP campaign is trying to court, as religious leaders worry the outreach could violate limits on politics in church. This week, the Republican National Committee confirmed it had asked Catholics who back Bush to give parish directories to the RNC as a way to identify and mobilize new voters. The Bush campaign has asked the same of congregants in other denominations. Republican spokesmen said the directories are public documents available to anyone, and making the request violates no law. The information will be used for nonpartisan voter-registration drives, they said, stressing that they are not asking clergy for the directories - which could risk a church's tax-exempt status - but instead are asking individual congregants to volunteer their copies. |
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