Source: The Plain Dealer
On October 25, 2000, The Plain Dealer reported that, "just days after the Christian
Coalition began a massive mailing of 70 million of its controversial voter guides, two
leading church-state watchdog groups have announced their own counter-offensive aimed at
key battleground states in the Nov. 7 election. The Interfaith Alliance, a broad-based
coalition of moderate and liberal religious groups, will release a letter from clergy to
fellow clergy in seven battleground states and nine others today urging them not to
distribute the voter guides. At the same time, Americans United for Separation of Church
and State has finished mailing 285,000 letters to clergy across the country, advising
that the voter guides could jeopardize churches' tax-exempt status. Amber Khan, an
Interfaith Alliance spokeswoman, said the 65,000 letters from local clergy hope to
counter the voter guides, which she said 'undermine the ability of people of good faith
to cast informed ballots.'
"'These voter guides are attempts to deceive and manipulate voters,' she said. 'They
turn our houses of worship into political rally halls.'"