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24 July, 2004
24 July 2004"'Churches have a responsibility to avoid partisan entrapment, just as political parties have a duty not to attempt to entrap them,'" said the Rev. Stephen J. Sidorak, Jr. executive director of the Christian Conference of Connecticut. Frances Grandy Taylor of The Hartford Courant reports on the many prominent church leaders (including the conservative and Bush-tied Southern Baptist Convention director, Richard Land), who have condemned the Bush-Cheney campaign's tactic to enlist church support. Sidorak called it a "'troubling development,'" that would jeopardize the separation of church and state--the intent of which, he said, wasn't to keep the church out of public life but to prevent manipulation of the church by the state.
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