Today at WH protest.....they represented "the birth of a religious left"

[truthpusher]

http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=4923188&nav=menu181_2_12

Today, from an AP news article....

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Cindy Sheehan, religious liberals protest Iraq war outside White House

WASHINGTON Calling herself "a recovering Catholic," anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan has joined several hundred religious liberals at a "pray-in" outside the White House.

Sheehan said U-S officials "have co-opted religion and have exploited people's faith" to wage war, and she called for President Bush's impeachment.

She shared an outdoor stage with clergy including the head of the National Council of Churches, a United Methodist official and Rabbi Michael Lerner.

Lerner told participants that they represented "the birth of a religious left" in America.

link: http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=4923188&nav=menu181_2_12

some recent photos....

yetserday...









Mothers day...

[Up2Late]

1. Does this reporter NOT understand what "a recovering Catholic" means?

Oh well, I'll stick with the Spiritual Middle (I'm a Buddhist).

[bananas]

2. Thanks for the photos. nt

[midnight]

3. I can only imagine that her belief in some higher power

has been keeping her strong. We love you Cindy, and wish you and your family peace.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Thanks.

[Bucky]

5. "Birth of" the religious left? "BIRTH OF"?! Aw, come on, people!

The religious left goes back to the ministry of Jesus. If you're not comfortable with that, let's talk about Abolitionism, Suffragism, the Temperance movement, the Populist movement, the Pacifist movement of the 1920s, all the Christians among the Wobblies and early labor activists, Dr King and the Civil Rights movement, the Sanctuary movement for Salvadorian refugess in the 1980s...

There has always been a religious left. The only new thing in the last twenty years is ignoramus reporters who look pretty on tv but don't know shit about what they cover.

[ShortnFiery]

7. On Earth --> Jesus lived as a Long-Haired Radical Socialist Jew

Long-Haired Radical Socialist Jew
1996 Hugh Blumenfeld/Hydrogen Jukebox Music
http://home.earthlink.net/~h2jukebox/mjdh.html

Well Jesus was a homeless lad
With an unwed mother and an absent dad
And I really don't think he would have gotten that far
If Newt, Pat and Jesse had followed that star

Refrain: So let's all sing out praises to
That long-haired radical socialist Jew

When Jesus taught the people he
Would never charge a tuition fee
He just took some fishes and some bread
And made up free school lunches instead
So let's all sing out praises to....

He healed the blind and made them see
He brought the lame folks to their feet
Rich and poor, any time, anywhere
Just pioneering that free health care
So let's all sing out praises to....

Jesus hung with a low-life crowd
But those working stiffs sure did him proud
Some were murderers, thieves and whores
But at least they didn't do it as legislators
So let's all sing out praises to....

(Modulate to A)

Jesus lived in troubled times
the religious right was on the rise
Oh what could have saved him from his terrible fate?
Separation of church and state.
So let's all sing out praises to....

Sometimes I fall into deep despair
When I hear those hypocrites on the air
But every Sunday gives me hope
When pastor, deacon, priest, and pope
Are all singing out their praises to
Some long-haired radical socialist Jew.

They're singing out their praises to..oooo..oooo..
Some long-haired radical socialist Jew.

[knitter4democracy]

9. That's what I was thinking, too.

What an idiot reporter. Does no one read history anymore?

[BrklynLiberal]

11. and folks like the Berrigan brothers, in the VietNam anti war movement.

[Done]

6. Should be re-birth n/t

[SidDithers]

8. Gack..religious left...

The influence of religion on politics makes me puke, whether it's from the right or left
:puke:

Sid

[lonestarnot]

10. Wonderful pics. I wish I could be there.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. If you have never seen it, checkout liberalslikechrist.org

www.liberalslikechrist.org

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

13. Then the radical priest came and got us released

We were all on the cover of Newsweek...

Thanks to Paul Simon.