BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES FISH FOR VOTES USING GOD AS BAIT.(Religion)

Byline: Terry Mattingly

No one really knows whether God is registered to vote in the upcoming presidential election.

But it is clear that the two Southern Baptists who represent the Democrats want to develop a warm, symbolic, politically correct credo that lets them talk about faith and values without offending anyone at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Meanwhile, President Bush will say almost anything to hang onto the blessing of the Religious Right. Thus, he told an Aug. 22 gathering of the fundamentalist flock: "I was struck by the fact that the other party took (thousands of) words to put together their platform, but left out three simple …