Some churches ignore GOP request for voter registration efforts

[kpete]

Some churches ignore GOP request
2/17/2006 10:41 AM
By: Associated Press

A spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, which covers 46 counties, said the group does not share parishioners' contact information with anyone.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Some church leaders in North Carolina have asked their members to ignore a request made this week by the state Republican Party for copies of church directories that the GOP wants to use in voter registration efforts.

A spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, which covers 46 counties, said the group does not share parishioners' contact information with anyone.

"If a pastor were to seek some guidance from the diocese chancellory -- the diocese's offices -- we would remind him of this general policy that prohibits the sharing of personal information," said David Hains, the communications director for the diocese.

That message would apply to parishioners as well, he said.

http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=113593

[Charlie Brown]

1. Why isn't this illegal?

If Democrats were harrassing people for contact-info, I'll bet they'd end up in jail.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Any church which passed on such info to a political party

should lose their tax exempt status forever. That is nothing but politics in a tax exempt status.

[demosincebirth]

3. they do, but they don't