A July 29th article by USA Today’s Lindsay Perna attempts to pass off a minimum wage campaign as an effort by “churches” when in reality it is a leftist push sponsored by ACORN, unions and the Center for American Progress.

The headline, “Churches push for $10 minimum wage by 2010,” pins the campaign squarely on churches even as the first paragraph walks that claim back in an artful vague way.

Religious leaders and advocates, not satisfied with the 70-cent rise in the federal minimum wage that went into effect on Friday, are calling on congressional leaders to hike it up to $10 by 2010.

Right in the first paragraph we must realize that it isn’t really “churches” that are involved in this effort but it is more likely the “advocates” that are heading this movement.

USA Today names this group as “Let Justice Roll.” So, let’s take a look at the website of this group to see what we find.

There listed as “Current Let Justice Roll Member Organizations” are such groups as ACORN, the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Business for Shared Prosperity, Cleveland Jobs With Justice, and World Hunger Education, Advocacy & Training. In fact, there are almost no actual “churches” involved. Even the religious themed organizations involved are NGO styled advocacy groups that are not directly affiliated with any actual church but are left wing advocacy groups started for political, not religious, reasons..

But, even if we can all agree that some “churches” are involved in this effort, why did USA Today so quickly ignore the union connections and the extremist left wing organizations also involved with this? Why did USA Today conveniently forget to mention that it is backed heavily by left wing groups in order to make it appear as if churches are pushing this effort?