Churchgoing closely tied to voting patterns (duh!)

USA Today via Yahoo! ^ | June 3, 2004 | Susan Page

[zencat]

I'd also wager church attendees have fewer children out of wedlock, lower rates of drug abuse, and less run ins with law enforcement.

[Choose Ye This Day]

That exception is brought up in the article:

There are exceptions to the pattern. African-Americans who often attend church are as reliably Democratic as those who don't.

I don't get it.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Republicans target the most faithful for political conversion so aggressively that critics say they skirt the law.

You've got to love the brazen bias of the "unbiased" media.

[jmaroneps37]

Another light bulb moment for a card carrying member of the ratmedia.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Tax law forbids political activity by churches.

Well that's just a crock. I just received a request from a council of churches asking for $3000 and a letter stating why their congregation should support me. It's a shakedown.

[Arthur McGowan]

Miss Babyslice has her work cut out for her.

[dpa5923]

He bought into the whole victim mentality. He claimed he couldn't trust republicans and the democRATs were for the little guy. I repeated provided him evidence to show him the truth, but he cared little for it and would pay it no mind.

[sr4402]

He faces objections from conservative Catholics that he has failed to follow the dictums of the church closely enough.

This is incorrect. If this were correct, it would be as if someone were saying 'Kerry is not pro-life enough'. No Kerry is 180% from the teaching of the church and his Pope. He has promoted abortion on demand and has innocents blood on his hands. Catholics who vote for Kerry, vote against the Pope and their church.

[rarebird]

Most black Christians vote Democratic because: (1) social issues like abortion and gays aren't politicized (although changing for the latter) as they view economic issues like jobs and "economic justice" as more important and ALSO as moral issues; (2) Democrats are widely viewed as the party for the "little guy," viewed as a moral issue; and (3) Republicans are widely viewed as extremely racist, also viewed as a moral issue. Until the Republicans neutralize the Democrats on points #2 and especially #3 (oh say, by not allowing Democrats to regularly define and demean them in media that most blacks ACTUALLY follow), point #1 won't happen. Black conservatives/Republicans have done a piss-poor job in this regard, not focusing attention to media that their primary target group ACTUALLY follows and not working WITHIN black communities.

[Kuksool]

[Barry Lynn, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, calls the e-mail "a breathtakingly bad merger of religion and politics" that asks churches to violate their tax-exempt status.]

Ever notice that Barry Lynn never complains about RAT friendly churches.

[anncoulteriscool]

This was a somewhat interesting article. Although I notice that it implies that there is something bad about republican catering to conservative christians but was oddly silent in criticizing democrats annual pilgramage to the black churches or other liberal churches on the sunday before the elections

As George Will once said people don't have a problem with a political point of view being expressed from the pulpit....providing of course that they agree with the point of view being expressed.

[anncoulteriscool]

I heard on Rush Limbaugh's show that the democrats were attempted to reach out to the group of people they are least popular with (namely, white guys that go to church). As one of those people I say no thanks. LOL!

[Kuksool]

Any person of faith who votes for Kerry is crazy.