The Staton Jones Report

Let's say you're a regular kinda guy who goes to your local Methodist church regularly, and for the most part goes through the rituals of service and worship but who doesn't get too involved in the extra activties at church. Then one day you start getting GOP literature addressed to you from out of no where. Wonder where it came from?

How about your local church. The Washington Post found a memo from the Bush/Cheney campaign instructing Christian volunteers to loot their church's database for potential GOP voters:

• Send your Church Directory to your State Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters or give to a BC04 Field Rep.
• Identify another conservative church in your community who we can organize for Bush.
• Recruit 5 people in your church to help with the voter registration project.
• Begin to organize a voter registration drive at your church.
• Encourage new Bush Volunteers to attend Bush/Cheney '04 training session in your area.
• Host a coffee/pot luck dinner/"Party for the President" with church members - July 15th, 2004.

Why do churches get to do PAC work and still get tax free status? Could someone explain that to me?