Christians for Bush? Count Us Out

Son Matthew passes along this link to information about a March 8th press event at which leaders of five mainline Protestant denominations--our own Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutherans, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, and the United Church of Christ (Pastor Dan's church)--protested President Bush's draconian 2006 budget.

According to the press release issued before the event,

The leaders will speak from the context of the teachings of Jesus Christ on matters of economic justice. The leaders will also illustrate how the Churches are doing their part to serve the working poor of the nation and reject the notion that faith-based organization can alone turn back the rising tide of poverty at home and abroad.

Did you see news of this in the mainstream media? Me neither. Will this condemnation of Bush's domestic policies by a broad-based coalition of Protestant leaders do anything to discourage the media's habitual shorthand references to "Christian" support for Bush? I doubt it.