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Social Justice Sunday
by George Lakoff


Fri Apr 15th, 2005 at 17:01:06 PDT

The right-wing frame is now complete and Bill Frist has signed on with Tom DeLay: "The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias, and it is now used against people of faith." This is not just the nuclear option; it is the thermonuclear option. The implicit claim is that every religious person is a right-wing conservative. Filibustering against horrendous right-wing judges is repudiating all believers in every religion - and being racist to boot. The national campaign is on. Sunday April 24 is booked for national TV at a Kentucky megachurch and called "Justice Sunday."
We must respond. We will call April 24 "Social Justice Sunday." We must show that spiritual progressives are alive and well and willing not just to speak out, but to shout out. The Clergy and Laity Network and DriveDemocracy.org are leading the effort.

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Religious progressives support social justice, not injustice. We want to protect life all the way from birth up until the edge of death. We will brook no government interference in difficult, even agonizing family decisions. We believe the common good is necessary if we are to pursue our private goods, and that government should use the common wealth for the common good. And we need our judges, and we need to keep them safe.

There are more religious progressives than right-wing fundamentalists. There are more of us than of them. They may be better organized, but this is changing and that change starts April 24. This is our test. Will we stand up to them? Will we write to our ministers, priests, imams and rabbis asking them to join us in speaking out? Will they put signs on their places of worship celebrating "Social Justice Sunday?" Will we organize and hold candle-light vigils and marches on the evening of April 24? Will we invite the media to sermons on Social Justice Sunday and to vigils?

We have already begun to organize - in just hours. Drivedemocracy.org and the Clergy and Laity Network issued a press release and activated their coalition of sixty progressive religious organizations. We called upon every religious organization to join with us.

We are members of Martin Luther King's "beloved community."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/15/2016/11711

[mandyky]

1. We need to respond like this EACH time

The fundies don't own God, they project their pathetic emotions onto God, and then find passages in the bible to justify their hatred. Do they even realize they break 2 of the 10 commandments - bearing false witness and coveting.

[UrbScotty]

2. Check out my sig line! (nt)

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3. Clergy and Laity Network and DriveDemocracy call for a National Prayer

Vigil on April 24th in response to the proposed national telecast by the Family Research Council.

Senator Bill Frist has joined with this organization and they are attacking the faith of Democrats and progressives in a cynical, partisan effort to win support for a handful of extremist judicial nominees. The Council is on record saying that Democrats are "against people of faith."

For more information on the disheartening comments that Senator Frist supports, read the article at the New York Times.

Click here to download Clergy and Laity Network and Drive Democracy's press release.

More information on the prayer vigil will provided soon.

http://www.clnnlc.org/

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4. DriveDemocracy.Org

4/15/2005
Social Justice Sunday Press Release

Filed under: General Organizing— Glenn @ 5:50 pm
Senate Majority Leader Frist’s Attack on the Religion of his Opponents “Offensive,” says a Coalition of Religious Organizations

Religious Coalition Appeals to Frist to Put the American Value of Religious Tolerance Ahead of Frist’s Partisan Political Agenda of Forcing Senators to Accept Bush’s Extremist Judicial Nominees

Friday, April 15 – A coalition of progressive religious leaders and organizations today expressed outrage that Republican leaders are attacking the faith of Democrats and progressives in a cynical, partisan effort to win support for a handful of extremist judicial nominees.

“Such an action is immoral, deceitful, and beyond the pale of even politics as usual,” said Rev. Albert M. Pennybacker, Executive Director and Chair of Clergy and Laity Network and coordinator for the Building the Beloved Community Coalition. “We call on Senator Frist to immediately cancel his plans to attend the event, and we urge all Republicans to condemn this wholesale attack on the religious practices of their political opponents.”

http://www.drivedemocracy.org/blog/

[Daphne08]

5. The Council is calling it “Justice Sunday,”

are saying Democrats want to use the Senate filibuster “against people of faith.”

That's the most patently ridiculous thing I've ever read!

[scarletwoman]

6. I'm certainly delighted to see the religious progressives get activated.

I truly hope they will muster some impressive numbers for this. It will be a whole other matter, of course, to see whether or not the corporate media will deign to notice.

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[jillan]

7. The first test on the new DNC!

It is time for the DNC to take a united stand on this...and come out with a clear message that ALL democrats use..from Big Eddie, to Randi to Keith to Maher to you and to me!

We should not allow them to attack us, or our religious beliefs just because we are not of the same political party:grr: