'Rrecklessly trying to lure them into political activities.'
[...] Corwin Smidt, a political science professor at Calvin College who oversaw a survey of pastors during the 2000 election, said most members of the clergy were reluctant to make political statements even outside of church for fear of alienating some members of their congregations.
In the survey, Professor Smidt said, about 5 percent of all pastors and about 15 percent of African-American pastors said they had endorsed a candidate for public office from the pulpit.
| For some reason, the last two paragraphs of David D. Kirkpatrick's New York Times article "Citing Falwell's Endorsement of Bush, Group Challenges His Tax-Exempt Status" caught our eye
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