In Kansas, a memo from the campaign of Attorney General Phill Kline on how he plans to appeal to religious voters has been leaked to the media, according to the Associated Press yesterday. In the memo, Kline tells his re-election campaign to hold political receptions near churches after their services, and to try to get pastor to mention the receptions during services. He also wants pastors to bring a few "money people" to each reception. In a debate with his Democratic challenger Paul Morrison yesterday, Kline defended his outreach to churches. He said, "They didn't need to break into my campaign software program and computer and hack this information to know about it - I have been speaking in churches for more than 20 years now." Challenged about church-state separation issues, he said that the principle is designed to prevent government imposing a religion, and not to preventing people of faith from expressing their opinions or holding public office.
UPDATE: Here is the full text of the Attorney General's memo to his campaign staff. For more on this see Jews On First blog.
