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Muslims and Black Liberation Theology Come to the Democrat Convention

August 24, 2008
Traditional Values Coalition

‘Faith’ Service includes Islamic Cleric

Radical liberal minister Ms. Leah D. Daughtry will be leading an interfaith service on August 24 before the Democratic National Convention in Denver. A featured speaker is Islamist Ingrid Mattson, a convert to Islam from Catholicism.



August 20, 2008 – An Interfaith Service, including Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Buddhist speakers will be held by the Democratic National Convention on August 24. Minister Leah Daughtry, a Black Liberation Theology advocate, will oversee the service and is the Convention CEO. (She formerly served in the Clinton Administration and serves as Howard Dean’s Chief of Staff at the Democratic National Committee.) Daughty’s preacher father founded the National Black United Front, which worked with the Black Panthers and Urban League and which preached black liberation theology.


According to Ms Daughtry, the purpose of the interfaith event is “to honor the diverse faith traditions inside the Democratic Party. This interfaith service will take place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, August 24 at the Wells Fargo Theater, inside the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
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Democrats open their 'faith0filled' convention with 'prayer'

Democrats open their 'faith-filled' convention with 'prayer'

DENVER - At the first official event Sunday of the Democratic National Convention, a choir belted out a gospel song and was followed by a rabbi reciting a Torah reading about forgiveness and the future.


Helen Prejean, the Catholic nun who wrote "Dead Man Walking," assailed the death penalty and the use of torture.

Young Muslim women in headscarves sat near older African-American women in their finest Sunday hats.

Four years ago, such a scene would have been unthinkable at a Democratic National Convention. In 2004, there was one interfaith lunch at the Democratic gala in Boston.

But that same year, "values voters" helped re-elect President Bush, giving Democrats of faith the opening they needed to make party leaders listen to them.

The result was on display at Sunday's interfaith service, staged in a theater inside the Colorado Convention Center, and will be evident throughout the convention agenda and on the sidelines.

(snip)ERIC GORSKI, AP Religion Writer

Did Obama promise Hillary a Supreme Court appointment?

Just wonderin'.........

Ala. judge facing complaint for praying in court

ANDALUSIA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama judge who once wore the Ten Commandments embroidered on his robe has been accused of violating judicial ethics for ordering a group in his courtroom to hold hands and pray.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint with the Judicial Inquiry Commission against Covington County Circuit Judge Ashley McKathan of Andalusia, said Olivia Turner, executive director of the ACLU of Alabama. The complaint said McKathan violated ethics rules and the U.S. Constitution by ordering the group to pray.

Four years ago, McKathan donned the Ten Commandments robe, he said, to publicly acknowledge his belief that the law is based on more than just words written in law books.

The ACLU complaint said McKathan dropped to his knees and prayed aloud during a court hearing in February.


[Not surprising that the Ap would leave this out and misrepresent what actually happened, but this was actually a status conference before the hearing started.]

He told the 100 people in the courtroom that he was not afraid to call on the name of Jesus Christ, witnesses said, and ordered all to join hands and pray, according to the complaint filed soon after the hearing.

The hearing was for a case in which the pastor and several deacons of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Monroeville sued the church's former secretary to gain possession of financial records.



In response to the complaint, McKathan told the Mobile Press-Register for a story Thursday: "Whatever comes of all that, I'll continue to have peace." Quoting Romans in the King James version of the Bible, the judge added: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose."

McKathan did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press Thursday.

The complaint was filed on behalf of several Monroeville residents, including some church members.

Another Roman Catholic Priest accused of child sex abuse

The priest who gave the invocation at David Paterson’s inauguration as New York’s Governor was suspended on Sunday amid accusations that he had sexually abused two minors.

Msgr. Wallace Harris, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church on W.141st St., was forbidden to perform his priestly duties pending recommendations from an advisory review board, according to The New York Daily News which quoted the Archdiocese of New York.

Msgr. Harris has allegedly committed sexual abuse 20 years ago. The monsignor has denied the accusations according to an archdiocese statement released on Sunday. The issue is now the responsibility of the Manhattan district attorney’s office. During the investigation, the archdiocese said it received a second claim concerning Monsignor Harris, who helped organize Pope Benedict's recent visit. (Snip-full article here)