Lying for Christ. The right defiles the nation's religious faith.

From Melissa Rogers Blog:

Americans United provides a more detailed report on the Family Research Council's workshop entitled "Getting Church Voters to the Polls." Here's an excerpt from AU's story:

The plan calls on church members to use their church directories to find voters who favor a certain candidate. Those voters are then targeted for follow-up calls. On election day, only persons identified as supporting the “favored” candidate will be reminded to vote.

[Connie] Marshner instructed the audience to give the directory to someone who does not attend the church and instruct them to call each person listed in it posing as a non-partisan pollster. According to a script in the manual, the caller should say, “Hello, I’m with ABC Polls. We’re calling in your area to find out the level of interest in the upcoming [U.S. Senate/House of Representatives/state assembly/town council/school board/etc.] election.”

“It’s very important that the person doing the calling is not known to the person being called,” Marshner told attendees. “Get someone from outside the church.”

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When a few other members of the audience challenged the ethics of the plan, Marshner said it was time to move on.

Reporters need to follow up on this story. Then those stories need to be disseminated to every person in an American pew.

Some of the people who complain the loudest about threats to religion from the outside seem to be busy damaging faith from the inside.

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