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Sister Helen Prejean, the Death Penalty, and the DNCC

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That's the title of a BeliefNet post reporting that Sr. Helen will be in Denver next week at the Democratic National Convention.  LINK  Here's an extended excerpt: Advance applause goes to the Democratic National Convention Committee for its decision to include Sister Helen Prejean author of Dead Man Walking in the historic interfaith service opening the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver on August 24th.  Whatever you think of the death penalty, Democrats have on this occasion avoided the interfaith milquetoast trap. Too often political officials select the blandest brands of religious officialdom for worship services--seeking a kind of spiritual good-house keeping seal of approval for their policies and platforms. In so doing politicians deprive themselves and society as a whole an important faith-based tradition: the prophetic pain-in-the-neck...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 20, 2008 (boomark / email).