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To kick-off Convention week in a spirit of unity, the DNCC, in conjunction with the Democratic Party’s Faith in Action (FIA) Initiative, will host an interfaith gathering on Sunday, August 24th, beginning at 2:00 PM at the Wells Fargo Theater located in the Colorado Convention Center.

This is the first time a celebration of this nature has been part of a Democratic National Convention and is symbolic of the Party’s desire to bring multiple communities together under its “big tent.” The gathering will include clergy of different faiths, Party leaders, elected officials and local community leaders. Speakers and musical guests will be announced later this summer. The event will be open to the public.

Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, it’ll be great to supplant the hold the religious right has on the Republican party by doing this. As long as on the liberal side of things we can come to the same side on various issues like poverty, the environment, evolution and the civil liberties, while maintaining our various religious beliefs I think this can be a good thing. The whole “culture of life” thing is amazingly short-sighted and a naked attempt at divisive politics, when life involves so much more than just making it out of the womb. But the devil is often in the details, I wonder if the means by which different people can come to believe that we are stewards of the earth and each other can affect how such policies are carried out.