Cuban-born bishop likens ploy to Castro: Castro asked for names of church members too
In a Fourth of July message to clergy of the Diocese of Southeast Florida, Episcopal Bishop Leo Frade expressed “grave concern” that the Bush-Cheney campaign has asked volunteers to use church member lists for political organizing.
“I am alarmed by any suggestion of providing the names of church members to any specific political group,” said the Cuban-born bishop. “I saw this request made by dictator Fidel Castro at the beginning of his regime, and his persecution of churches that refused. It was one of the first of his attempts to control the country by force.”