Bob Allen reported today that Family Research Council veep Kenyn Cureton and Faith2Action found Janet Folger recently spoke on Folger's radio show about ivotevalues.org's efforts to push the limits of pastoral electioneering this year.

"The pastors need to speak more clearly about it," Cureton said. "I'll tell you that we are working with the Alliance Defense Fund on a series of sermons this fall for pastors to preach, so that they educate their people on the issues. We're going to be talking about the value of life, the value of family and the value of freedom--basically talking about abortion and stem-cell research and then also about the gay agenda and then finally about our Christian heritage and how it's being stripped from every corner of our society. And finally we're going to be doing a candidate-comparison message that is going to ask pastors to cross the line."

"Really?" a surprised-sounding Folger replied. "What do you mean cross the line? Are you going to be suggesting who they vote for?"

"Well we're going to go to pastors and say to them that we really believe that they need to challenge some of the thinking that we have going on in our society, which is that separation of church and state doctrine, that we really need to preach the Bible on these issues and apply them to the things that are going on in the culture today," Cureton said.
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Folger indicated she hopes the ban, which has been in effect for 50 years, will eventually be overturned, but in the meantime she speculated about what might happen if large numbers of pastors would ignore it as a matter of civil disobedience.

"I think we can actually within the legal means explain here's where the candidates stand, here's what the Bible says and people can draw that conclusion," she said. "But we need to make sure that it's clear not only what the Bible says but where those candidates stand."

"It's interesting though," she said. "I wonder what would happen if a bunch of pastors decided they were going to cross the legal line until we get that glitch in the system fixed legally." As an analogy she described a protest in Colorado where 10,000 people lit up marijuana joints in public, while police did nothing to stop them.

That is what we call talking a big game.