"Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ~ George Orwell

Last Tuesday when Bush doled out 1.1 Billion of our dollars to faith-based groups, an e-mail was sent out to supporters asking them for contact info on others in their church who might want give a hand. In Pennsylvania alone the e-mail asked supporters to find coordinators for 160 congregations "where voters friendly to President Bush might gather on a regular basis."
Some of course will charge foul. Don Alexander, former IRS commissioner in the Nixon administration, says "I am quite surprised to see that in his campaign for re-election as chief executive that the president is encouraging churches to break the tax rules the chief executive is supposed to enforce." Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State states, "We complain pretty regularly about both Republican and Democratic endorsements with church money, but this is a highly orchestrated effort at the national level by the Bush-Cheney campaign to turn thousands and presumably tens of thousands of places of worship into centers for Bush pep rallies."
Is it really all that different than a candidate visiting a church? Bush ,of course, is a righteous Christian. It isn't surprising that he's looking for support from like minded individuals.

Meanwhile while we are on the subject of our Nation's traditional Christian values can someone please help me understand how to reconcile Administration lawyers concluding in a policy paper last year that a president can legally order interrogators to torture terrorist suspects with Leviticus 19:18 or even Romans 12:21 Not being a Christian I'm sure I don't fully understand the ideas, maybe it's just that Compassionate Conservatism only applies to those "like minded individuals."