The good news is that Kerry's choice for "Anti-Religious Director" beat out Karl Marx and Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
Would an actual Christian or believing Jew actually sign on with this man? I am sure a Moslem would but it might not "send the right message" or something.
Kerry's a real barrel full of laughs, isn't he?
This is pretty typical Democratic tactic to say one thing in public then have underlyings do another. Clinton would talk a good centrist game but many of the administrators under him were hard core leftists.
If memory serves me correctly from reading another article, the lady is in her late 20's. That doesn't provide her with a lot of political experience.
The good news is that Kerry's choice for "Anti-Religious Director" beat out Karl Marx and Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
I just love it when leftists use words like "collective" and "workers".
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But, my bet here is that Mara was picked by Terry Kerry. Mara's anticatholicism, anti-Americanism and neocommunism were not weighed in the employment decision. But, if we can dig deep enough, I bet Mara worked for one of Terry's left-wing non-profits on one or more projects where she interacted well with some religious leader. It may not have been a reputable religious leader, but some one where the Widow Heinz and Flipper John's current wealthy wife was impressed.
That is, assuming he's not possessed and is actually the one doing the writing. Too early to reach a conclusion on that number.
Exactly what is this supposed to accomplish?
Ping.
No, it's par for the course for Kerry.
Yeah, and this appointment will help.../s
"the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage."
Mark Tooley, "Religious Left Coalitions"
Two relatively new religious coalitions are combating the burgeoning influence of Christian conservatives. The Interfaith Alliance, created in 1994, is largely a mishmash of fading, old-line Religious Left fixtures whose predictable denunciations of Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson have failed to attract sustained attention or new allies. But the Call to Renewal, which Sojourners publisher Jim Wallis helped create last year, has been considerably more successful in portraying itself as a viable alternative to the Christian Right.
Many National Council of Churches types have endorsed the Call, but their profiles have been kept noticeably low. More prominent have been "progressive" evangelicals and Roman Catholics who claim their politics are "above" and "beyond" the "traditional politics" of Left and Right. . .
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Of the Call's 100 prominent endorsers, eighteen are Roman Catholic, including Bishops Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit; Raymond Lucker of New Ulm, Minnesota; LeRoy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas; Francis Murphy of Baltimore; Peter Rosazza of Hartford, Connecticut; Walter Sullivan of Richmond, Virginia; and, Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee.
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Cafferty was joined by Wallis and other Call founders, including Baptist evangelist Tony Campolo, who seemed to summarize the Call's objective when he said, "We want to change the purpose of evangelism. . . Political issues are at the heart of the Christian faith. We thank them [the Religious Right] for making America aware that politics is religious."
Campolo, whom President Clinton has cited as one of his ten most admired preachers, pledged that the Call's "progressive evangelical caucus" would "avoid Left and Right" while advocating community programs to battle "gay-bashing, racism, and poverty." He said they would seek "reconciliation and not polarization."
Note on the Thomas Gumbleton mentioned above:
On Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003, the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) Coalition held a panel discussion/press conference entitled Iraq: George W. Bush's "Vietnam"? at the National Press Club in Washington DC. The panel featured former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark, Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, family members of U.S. GIs, and other leaders of the anti-war movement, who collectively discussed the growing mood in the United States to bring U.S. troops back from Iraq and to end the occupation.
Mara Babyslice has an uphill battle ahead of her.
And the winner of the 2004 Demon-ratic parties Spiritual Leader is....STALIN!!!
Oh crap, he's vacationing in hell. Accepting his award tonight is Michael Moore!! He won't be in hell for at least a month!!
This confirms what we've known all along. Kerry is a
complete and total "nutcase"!
Religious Democrats?
by Mara Vanderslice
Dean supporters were not religious and liked him because he didn’t talk about religion. A senior staff member who came into Iowa in the final weeks even asked me, "How in the world did you get hired?!" He just couldn’t comprehend expending resources to reach out to the religious community. "It’s not that I’m against it," he said, "it’s just I would have never thought of it. Who would have known religious people could get behind us?"
When Dean abruptly started talking about religion, his comments came across as insensitive and out of touch: He said he would only talk about religion when campaigning in the South; he called Job his favorite "New Testament" book.
I was amazed by the ignorance about religious people that I found among campaign workers, who seemed unable to comprehend Christians being Democrats. What an odd misconception, considering that an overwhelming percentage of Democrats are religious; according to George Barna, one of the most respected pollsters on religious matters, 79 percent of Democrats attend a Catholic or Protestant church. It was not the right wing Dean was alienating, but the very base of his party.
PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC nominee John Kerry need not make the same mistakes. Kerry and his wife Teresa have publicly emphasized the importance of their Catholic faith. Kerry spoke recently to a church audience quoting from James on how faith without works is dead. If Kerry continues to use religious language appropriately (and not only when speaking in the South) and embraces the millions of religious Americans that are the base of his supporters, he might just change some assumptions about the "secular" Democratic Party, and in the process, pick up a crucial constituency that could tip the balance of the election.
Mara Vanderslice, a Christian activist and political organizer
What separation between church and state? The Bush campaign is making a bid for the votes of churchgoers, getting churches to distribute campaign materials and enlist voters:
The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of the liberal Americans United for Separation of Church and State, argued that any form of distributing campaign literature through a church would compromise its tax-exempt status. He called the effort "an absolutely breathtakingly large undertaking," saying, "I never thought anyone could so attempt to meld a political party with a network of religious organizations."
In a statement, Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, a liberal group, called the effort "an astonishing abuse of religion" and "the rawest form of manipulation of religion for partisan gain." He urged the president to repudiate the effort.
In a statement, Mara Vanderslice, director of religious outreach for the Kerry campaign, said the effort "shows nothing but disrespect for the religious community." Ms. Vanderslice continued: "Although the Kerry campaign actively welcomes the participation of religious voices in our campaign, we will never court religious voters in a way that would jeopardize the sanctity of their very houses of worship."
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April 05, 2004
Palm Sunday With John Kerry Went to church.
A Catholic, Kerry marked Palm Sunday and the start of Easter week at the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church where he was given a hero's welcome.
"We're thankful that there's going to be a revolution in this country ... a new movement," declared pastor Gregory Groover. " And we say, God, bring him on, the next president of the United States."
Kerry, who has worshiped at the predominantly black church at least twice before, and his wife Teresa both took communion.