Jude 2

GM, church team up to convert sales
Move some souls, move some cars

http://www.freep.com/article/20100419/N ... vert-sales

It was a day of praise, prayer and, well, test driving General Motors' new lineup of cars, crossovers and SUVS.

In what organizers said was the first event of its kind in the area, Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit teamed up Sunday with GM and the GM Minority Dealers Association to offer churchgoers a chance to test drive more than a dozen cars.

As congregants left the northwest side church at 1 p.m., Pastor Charles Adams said the idea of Ride and Drive was to demonstrate GM's commitment to minority causes, its employment of thousands of local African Americans and to encourage churchgoers to buy a new GM car.

It's a beautiful car," the 38-year-old Detroit resident said. "I love it. When I get a job, I might get one."

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So, federally operated GM can take its message ("Buy Chevy") to churches in Detroit. Said church cannot take its message ("Follow Jesus") to the White House. This kind of thing scares me more than almost any other governmental activity. It is, in my mind anyway, dangerously parallel to the Three Self Patriotic Movement in China.

dolfan wrote:So, federally operated GM can take its message ("Buy Chevy") to churches in Detroit. Said church cannot take its message ("Follow Jesus") to the White House. This kind of thing scares me more than almost any other governmental activity. It is, in my mind anyway, dangerously parallel to the Three Self Patriotic Movement in China.

Good points.. I actually think the overall point is to ultimately GIVE FREE cars away to "worthy" people. Didn't Obama promise that in his Nomination Speech? My wife and I both remember that clearly.

I'm all for a separation of church and CHEVY (Ford guy here).