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According to campaign memorandums, it has asked "people of faith team leaders" to help identify thousands of "friendly congregations" around the country.

This transparent bridge across the church-state divide comes as hustings-tempted clergy are being openly enlisted by White House campaigners as "friendly congregations" for the November elections.

Mr. Schmidt, the campaign spokesman, said the e-mail message sought only individual volunteers from among the "friendly congregations," not the endorsements of the any religious organizations or groups.

A1 Churches Rally Around Bush The West County Assembly of God church in suburban St . Louis-- the former place of worship of Attorney General John Ashcroft and an evangelical congregation in a Republican district of a pivotal swing state -- is on the front lines of the Bush campaign's effort to work with "friendly congregations" to help get out the conservative vote.

Last month, after Republican workers began soliciting hundreds of "friendly congregations" in the swing state of Pennsylvania, the Internal Revenue Service sent out a blunt warning to political leaders that they could cost churches their tax-exempt status by enlisting them in transparent partisanship.

A Bush campaign effort to enlist members of thousands of "friendly congregations" around the country to distribute campaign materials to their fellow believers came to light in an e-mail message sent Tuesday to selected members of the clergy and others in Pennsylvania.

In his speech at the reception, he brought up recent criticism of the campaign over an e-mail message from Pennsylvania suggesting that supporters distribute campaign information inside the places of worship of "friendly congregations," something specialists in election law say might jeopardize their tax status.

The measure, called "Safe Harbor for Churches," attracted criticism because it was attached to a larger corporate tax bill just days after the disclosure this month that President Bush's re-election campaign was looking for members of "friendly congregations" to distribute campaign information at their places of worship.