Our Live Public Forum on Religion in the 2008 Election
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Date: 12 June 2008
From Mitt Romney's Mormon faith to John McCain and Barack Obama's preacher problems, religion has played an outsized - and surprising - role in this year's campaigns. This week we devote our entire show to our live public forum on faith in Election 2008, taped at the All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, DC, on June 4th. What an exciting night it was!
Featuring:
Imam Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of MAS Freedom, the civic and human rights advocacy entity of the Muslim American Society
Rev. Dr. Welton Gaddy, President of the Interfaith Alliance, Host of State of Belief on Air America radio, and co-author of First Freedom First: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Religious Liberty and the Separation of Church and State
Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert, Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Howard University Divinity School, and associate faculty member, College of Preachers, Washington National Cathedral
Dr. Richard Land, President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and author of the Divided States of America?: What Liberals AND Conservatives are missing in the God-and-country shouting match!
Dr. Keith Pavlischek, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and author of John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lt. Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003, and author of Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way
This event was co-sponsored by WAMU-88.5 FM in Washington, DC; All Souls Church, Unitarian and Interfaith Voices.
Want more? Listen to the entire, unedited show
