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03/16/2004: "Partisan, perhaps? Crazy, maybe?"
Anybody out there know the rules regarding church-related organizations working with partisan political ones? I was wondering because earlier this evening, I came across something called the Win without War Coalition. It's calling for President Bush to be censured for misleading the American people about Iraq (next up: polygraphing the French, German, and Russian intelligence services to find out why they thought there were WMDs in Iraq). Anyway, here's a selection of the religious participants in the WWWC:
National Council of Churches
United Methodist Board of Church and Society
United Church of Christ
American Friends Service Committee
Pax Christi (national Catholic peace movement)
Unitarian Universalist Association
Now here's a selection of political organizations:
Council for a Livable World
Feminist Majority Foundation
MoveOn.org
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
WorkingAssets
The religious organizations above are careful not to explicitly endorse candidates. But they are working closely with a wide variety of left-wing organizations, some of them genuinely wacko, in a variety of settings. Another example of this is United for Peace and Justice, which includes in its coalition:
National Council of Churches
General Board of Global Ministries United Methodist Church
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Pax Christi
Council of Churches of the City of New York
Church Women United (NCC)
They are yoked with:
Communist Party USA
National Lawyers Guild
League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Pacifica Foundation
Socialist Party USA
Workers Party, USA
Young Communist League, USA
House of The Goddess Center for Pagan Wombyn (my favorite)
Your choice, mainliners. If you're comfortable with your churches throwing in with the CPUSA and the pagan wombyn, keep those checks flowing. If not, maybe you should ask your denominational officials what the NCC is doing marching alongside the loonies.
