Bush's Outreach to Churches Angers Baptists

"I'm appalled that the Bush-Cheney campaign would intrude on a local congregation in this way," says Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission regarding campaign-oriented material that the president has sent to numerous churches across the country. Land's comments are particularly stinging, given that the President has enjoyed traditionally enjoyed widespread support from this group. The controversial promotional tactic has also drawn fire from the Reverend Welton Gaddy of the Washington-based advocacy group known as Interfaith Alliance: "We are alarmed that this initiative by the Bush-Cheney campaign could lure religious organizations and religious leaders into dangerous territory where they risk losing their tax-exempt status and could be violating the law,"

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