Secular Coalition to DNC: "Unity" Event Should Include Us

[tbyg52]

I'm not crazy about this event to begin with (I think I read that this is the first time something like this is being done), but if they do it they need to include non-theists. <Sigh> It's kinda depressing to be in about the last group that a majority says they *wouldn't* vote for under any circumstances.....

The chief executive officer of the Democratic National Convention Committee, the Rev. Leah Daughtry, has planned an interfaith gathering as the opening event of the Democratic National Convention on August 24, 2008. While it is designed to showcase the "diversity" and "shared values" of the party and achieve a "spirit of unity," it will, in fact, marginalize those Democrats who do not practice religion.

Upon learning of this event, the Secular Coalition for America wrote to Daughtry on July 2, 2008 expressing its concern that an interfaith gathering which excludes nontheistic Democrats is divisive rather than unifying, and also expressed the Coalition's willingness to discuss ways to make the convention more inclusive. Because a recent Associated Press report suggests that Daughtry is considering this concern, the Coalition's director, Lori Lipman Brown, is following up today with a more concrete offer: to fly to Denver herself and participate in the interfaith gathering.

More:
http://www.secular.org/news/DNC_Daughtry080730.html

Action (if you wish):
http://action.secular.org/t/5367/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25245

BTW, I am being dragged off the computer now, so I'm not ignoring you if you reply and then I don't. :hi: