At 05:31 PM 7/2/2004, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Tom writes:
>
> > At 04:57 PM 7/2/2004, HP Fan wrote:
> >  >In Related thought: The Bush administration has requested copies of
>rosters
> >  >from every church in the country: names, addresses, phone, and
>contribution
> >  >history.
> >
> >  This is simply not true.
>
>As Tom says, it's not true -- but a variant of it is. The Bush Administration
>doesn't so much want to spy on churchgoers as it wants to prey on them. The
>Bush re-election people see churchgoers as their last reliable audience.

Well, the Bushies see *conservative* churchgoers as their last reliable
audience. I am pretty certain that the most of the members of the mainline
Protestant congregation I belong to are in the ABB (Anybody But Bush) camp.
I doubt that the Bush campaign will get much traction in African-American
congregations, either.

As the Reuters article Wirt quoted pointed out, even conversative churches
are telling them to get lost.

--
Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
http://www.northtech.com/

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