{"id":2397,"date":"2010-10-21T16:51:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/10\/aclu-questions-sunday-morning.php"},"modified":"2010-10-21T16:51:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:51:34","slug":"aclu-questions-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/10\/aclu-questions-sunday-morning","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Questions Sunday Morning Voting at Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (RNS) The American Civil Liberties Union is criticizing plans by two Iowa churches to host early voting during worship services.<br \/>\n&#8220;Combining polling places with religious services is an invitation to the abuse of both religion and the civic act of voting,&#8221; said Ben Stone, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, reported The Des Moines Register.<br \/>\nSatellite voting will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday (Oct. 24) at Cornerstone Church in Ames, which holds worship services at 9 a.m.<br \/>\nand 11 a.m. Another Ames congregation, Stonebrook Church, will host voting during the same six-hour period on Oct. 31.<br \/>\nTim Lubinus, global ministry director at Cornerstone Church, said his congregation did not request to hold the Sunday voting but was instead approached by a county official.<br \/>\nBrad Barrett, a pastor at Stonebrook Church, defended the plans, saying, &#8220;I think the Founding Fathers were intending to keep government from meddling with church, not church from influencing government.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe ACLU has also expressed concern about Iowa churches mounting a campaign to oust state Supreme Court justices who legalized same-sex marriage in 2009.<br \/>\n&#8212; Adelle M. 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