Looks like Democrats weren't the only ones disturbed by the Bush Campaign's plan to cull names from church memberships: ''I'm appalled that the Bush-Cheney campaign would intrude on a local congregation in this way," said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. ''The bottom line is, when a church does it, it's nonpartisan and appropriate. When a campaign does it, it's partisan and inappropriate," he said. ''I suspect that this will rub a lot of pastors' fur the wrong way." The Bush campaign defended yesterday a memo in which it sought to mobilize church members in support of the president's reelection bid through efforts such as providing church directories to the campaign, arranging for pastors to hold voter registration drives, and talking to various religious groups about the campaign. Some religious organizations have criticized the document as inappropriate and perhaps having the potential to cause churches to jeopardize their tax-exempt status by becoming involved in partisan politics. A campaign spokesman, Scott Stanzel, said the document, distributed to campaign staff, was well within the law. ''People of faith have a right to take part in the political process, and we're reaching out to every supporter of President Bush to become involved in the campaign," Stanzel said. One section of the document lists 22 ''coalition coordinator" duties and lays out a timeline for various activities targeting religious voters. By July 31, for example, the coordinator is to: Send your church directory to your state Bush-Cheney '04 headquarters or give to a BC04 field representative. Identify another conservative church in your community that we can organize for Bush. Recruit five people in your church to help with the voter registration project. Talk to your pastor about holding a citizenship Sunday and voter registration drive. I've never been among those who contend that it's inherently wrong for churches or pastors to take or advance political stances, although I've frequently criticized the type the Southern Baptist Convention pushes. But asking pastors to turn over membership lists to campaign coordinators is a different animal entirely - and it's an ugly one.