We're going to Nashville on August 14 to face down the radical Christian Right and their upcoming "Justice Sunday II, otherwise known as Theocrats and Throwbacks.
DriveDemocracy.org has stirred up considerable interest among progressive religious groups. But while we're waiting for their commitments to join us, we've committed. We're going in.
We launched our fundraising drive today, and we could sure use your help. We need to raise $10,000 in the next 48 hours so we can begin to pay for all the preparations. You can contribute here.
Our April event in Louisville opposite the first Justice Sunday was a smashing success. You can read an account of it
here. We received extensive media coverage, with clips from the event and interviews with our national religious leaders getting their fair share of time in the mainstream media. It's about time.
We are not going to let the theocrats seize the national media stage by themselves any longer. Progressive spiritual leaders are increasingly engaged in the political sphere, and that's how it should be. For too long there's been silence from the left while the extremists on the Christian Right try to impose their will and their selfish, narrow religious views on the rest of the country.
In Nashville we will of course raise concerns about Bush's Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts. But we will also directly confront the Right about their effort to replace our pluralistic democracy with their homogeneous and authoritarian theocracy.
We recognize that this places a special responsibility on the progressive religious leaders. While we are speaking up about inclusion, compassion, and freedom, we must also loudly champion the separation of church and state, a separation the Right wants to erase. We are the voices of all faith traditions, and of those Americans without a tradition.
Please help us if you can. Join us in Nashville. We'll keep you posted on the specific time and location. We're lining up national and local speakers, music and more.
Co-sponsoring the event is Faith Voices for the Common Good.