Carolyn
Mark for later reading.
James E. Clyburn, a former teacher and employment counselor, is a leader among African-American Congressmen and served as Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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DEMOCRATIC PARTY leaders and progressive religious activists are persevering in their separate but complementary efforts to shape a connection between faith and polities.
"It's a miracle that we stayed together after the election," said Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, referring to an ongoing "movement" among like-minded faith activists.
Edgar, a United Methodist minister and former congressman, said that every Thursday a telephone conference call takes place involving about 40 progressive religious figures, including Jim Wallis of the Call to Renewal movement, James Forbes of New York's Riverside Church, Welton Gaddy of the Interfaith Alliance and David Saperstein, a Reform rabbi in Washington, D.C. The discussions, which began around Labor Day, are hosted by the Washington-based Center for American Progress (CAP), founded in 2003 by John Podesta, who was chief of staff at the Clinton White House. The sessions are coordinated by CAP senior fellow Melody Barnes, a former counsel to Senator Edward Kennedy.
The Democrats twice added religious advisers, then suddenly pulled back on each of them. In June, not long after Kerry's team appointed Mara Vanderslice, a socially liberal evangelical, as director for religious outreach, party officials told her not to talk to the press. In August the DNC's newly named senior adviser for religious outreach, Brenda Bartella Peterson, a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister, was asked to resign after only eight days on the job.
Both steps were taken after William Donohue, head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, fired off news releases pointing to issues in the two appointees' pasts. "Why are Kerry and the DNC imploding on religion?" Donohue asked. "Because too many of the elites running the show are devout secularists who put a premium on freedom from religion."
This quote reconciles with my initial reaction which was "if someone counseling dim's to victory is an evangelical, then I am Mahatma Ghandi". It is not possible to be an evangelical Christian and reconcile with the dim agenda.
"Hillary Rodham Clinton being "blessed" by a Native American shaman."
Satan's Daughter is playing this brilliantly. Are there still some of you out there who don't think she can win?
I want to get a comment from Burns Strider but can't find a number anywhere. I want to challenge him on Hillary's bearing false witness against Peter Paul. Your help will be appreciated.
Can a religious scholar on this thread cite the Commandments in which Hillary believes and practices?
BARF!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can't make this stuff up folks!
So long as judicial supremacy persists, I cannot understand how any evangelical or conservative Catholic could support Hillary specifically, or Democrats in general. I can understand not voting out of disgust or disappointment, but to actively and directly support those whose agenda includes having a judiciary that will destroy all vestiges of our traditions is just mind-boggling.