Letter to the editor

Dear Editor:

In September, the Republican National Committee put up Web sites

aimed at voters within specific religious institutions including

href=”http://www.kerrywrongforcatholics.com” target=

“_new”>www.kerrywrongforcatholics.com,

www.

kerrywrongformormons.com and

“http://www.kerrywrongforevangelicals.com” target=

“_new”>www.kerrywrongforevangelicals.com.

I find the Republican party’s attempts to co-opt religious

organizations and tell their members how to vote to be abhorrent.

It is the worst kind of proselytizing and abusive of the power they

have to influence people with misinformation. I would be insulted

if they targeted my denomination in this way – and I hope every

Roman Catholic, Mormon and Evangelical feels the same way.

I’m quite capable of thinking for myself and don’t need

any political organization telling me how I should think or vote

based on my religious beliefs. My church encourages me to think -

and vote – for myself.

Any religious organization or pastor or leader that tells anyone

how to vote ought to be immediately suspect and strongly condemned

by its membership. It should also have its tax-exempt status

immediately revoked. Ditto any political organization that

intimates that people of a particular religious organization must

vote in a certain way.

The Republican party must be really desperate and scared to death.

Shame on them. And shame on any person of any religious persuasion

who falls for such despicable political tactics.

The Rev. Canon Alice Farquhar – Mayes

St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral, Boise

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