So-called nonpartisan religious voter guides carry an unambiguous partisan message.

Evidence

Voter guides escape IRS limitations on campaigning for candidates on the theory that they offer voters a nonpartisan assessment of where the candidates stand on key issues. However, every voter guide I come across here has a pretty unambiguous message. The candidates from one party are in favor of “life.” Candidates from the other party apparently favor death. One party’s candidates support “religious freedom.” The other party’s candidates presumably endorse religious tyranny. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 90

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the mechanics of evangelical political infrastructure mobilizing churches as partisan vehicles under tax-exempt cover. — connects to: Moses turned a nominally nonpartisan reform bulletin into partisan election weaponry — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 588; Voter guides are partisan campaign tools disguised as neutral; Christian-right election briefings mask partisan aims as civic activism — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 58
• SEED: Angle: how the ‘nonpartisan voter guide’ legal fiction launders partisan messaging through religious organizations.

Broader Connections

• Voter guides are partisan campaign tools disguised as neutral #corroborates (1.00)
• Christian-right election briefings mask partisan aims as civic activism #corroborates (0.92) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 58