In a attempt to embrace the religious people of America, The Democratic Party has chosen very carefully it’s leaders for the next Democratic National Convention.
The Rev. Leah D. Daughtry, a pentecostal pastor, wil be chief executive of the convention. Ms. Daughtry announced in a conference call with members of the religious news media on Wednesday that convention committees had been seeded with religious leaders like the Rev. Tony Campolo, an evangelical author; Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago; and Bishop Vashti McKenzie, the first woman to be a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
It has also included “faith” type activities for the first time in it’s known history. For the first time, the Democratic convention will be kicked off by an interfaith prayer service, on Aug. 24 (although still to be decided is who will lead the prayers and where they will be held). And in another first, there will be a caucus during the convention explicitly for “people of faith,” to meet at the same time as the caucuses for African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics and other groups.
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