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  • Sister Simone Campbell: 'I was comfortable with God not being named' in platform

    09/07/2012 1:38:11 PM PDT · by NYer · 57 replies
    Current ^ | September 6, 2012 | Jo Piazza
    Democrats broke into a battle of wills on Wednesday over the need to restore God to the party’s official platform. After much infighting, they eventually made a change that restored language that was in the 2008 platform.It now reads: "We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential."Republicans had a field day with the godless platform. But was the change actually necessary?We asked Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of the Catholic social justice lobbying group NETWORK...