God and Country

My liberal friends tell me a real problem they have with Bush and his supporters is the influence of the Christian right in Republican politics. There seems to be a persistent view that conservative church goers get their marching orders from the pulpit. Well I never have received such guidance. Politics does not come up in my church. There were no get out the vote efforts in my congregation. The same goes for my friends in other local churches. It may happen in isolated cases but it is not a wide spread coordinated effort in the Christian community. But this election season there is a great deal of evidence of churches being used by one of the political parties.

Here's a shot for a Philadelphia church where Ted Kennedy was speaking yesterday:



Here's Brother Kerry preaching at a Florida Church yesterday.

Or read the story here

How 'bout Kerry at an Ohio Church service earlier this month

Find me the story of George Bush using God in this cynical way. When John Kerry is done with the God card he'll put it away until the next election.