Religon in the Campaign

I read a foxnews.com article titled Campaign Volunteers Scour Churches for Votes. The article highlights efforts being made in Catholic Churches around the country to pass out literature marked as "bipartisan." The pieces of literature speak about abortion and gay marriage, asking the question "who shares out values, you decide." The pieces clearly advocating views from the right about these issues but staying bipartisan by not directly endorsing a candidate. I was upset by the lack of concern for the rights of separation of church and state in the article. The article was not advocating these events but did not seem to point out any problems except for tax exemption problems. I think that this is violating the sacredness of church as a place to come together and worship, not as a place to be told how and who to vote for. I also think it is counterproductive to assume that all church goers will vote for a particular political party because of a few social issues. I wish that foxnews.com would have taken a firmer stances on this behavior and really discussed why this is not good for the country. It makes me wonder how much of this is advocated by the McCain campaign. Passing out literature with two men on top of a wedding cake and dead babies are not ways to gain support from the middle, but it is good way to energize the base. I see this as kind of a covert operation, not indented to gain national attention but to energize the base by scaring them with exaggerated literature pieces.