The religion of Bruce Springsteen, rock singer

The religion of Bruce Springsteen, rock singer:

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(Stuffed into a trash can by a nun in 3rd grade, Bruce was not a churchgoer as an adult.)

When MTV ran a Thanksgiving weekend contest in which fifty CD boxes were given away (along with the players to go with them), entrants had to call an AT&T 900 number. Knowing how Bruce might feel about that, MTV proposed donating its end of the fifty cents per call to an organization specified by Springsteen. He chose Chris Sprowal's Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless, which subsequently received more than $25,000, enabling the National Union for the Homeless to organize in several additional cities during a cruelly cold winter. Tour or no tour, Bruce Springsteen still meant what he'd said to his Philadelphia fans: "The ideas that I sing about in my songs these people put into action in real life. Fifteen percent of the population in this country lives below the poverty line, and for no good reason. It's gotten so we just accept this as a fact of life -- that some people are poor and will stay poor -- and that's not right."