Interfaith liberals

Denver may be a signal of things to come | Gene Edward Veith

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Democrats are going all out for the "God vote." And they aren't even particular as to which god.

The 2004 convention in Boston had a secular tone, but the Democratic Convention in Denver opened with worship. It was an interfaith service, with Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and adherents to any other religion they could find all worshipping together.

Mollie Z. Hemingway was there, reporting for National Review Online. She described the spectacle:

Rather than a reading from the Old Testament, the Psalms, the New Testament, and a Gospel—as you would hear in a liturgical Christian service—there were readings from the Torah, the Sutra Nipata, the Koran, and more from the Old Testament. No New Testament. It is unsurprising that no reading contained a claim of exclusivity or, for that matter, any claim that adherents of a different religion would disagree with. Rather than using proper names to refer to prophets or deities, clergy tend to overload on pronouns and nondescript names. "Lord," rather than "Jesus." "The God of Leviticus" becomes "Holy One of Blessing."