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| SEPTEMBER
18, 1998 6:29 PM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: The Interfaith Alliance Amber Khan 202-639-6370 ext. 106 |
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| Christian Coalition's Road To Victory Conference; Rhetoric Filled with Mean-spirited Partisanship | ||||
| WASHINGTON
- September 18 - Today, The Interfaith Alliance's Executive Director, Rev. Dr. C. Welton
Gaddy released the following statement regarding the Christian Coalition's Road To Victory
'98 Conference. If there were any lingering doubts about the Christian Coalition's true motives, they were all but removed. As the opening speakers filled the hall with divisive rhetoric, it was apparent that hardball partisan politics, pure and simple, drive the Coalition. In contrast to Randy Tate's description of the Christian Coalition as a "Christ-like organization," Pat Robertson's and Rabbi Lapin's messages were mean-spirited diatribes designed not to inspire civility and healing but rather division in the hopes of motivating and mobilizing the right-wing base of the Republican Party. Announcing plans to distribute 45 million deceptive and biased voter guides in churches two days before the election, the Coalition's electoral strategy jeopardizes both the sanctity and tax-exempt status of our houses of worship. This blatant effort to attain raw political power in the name of God not only cheapens the democratic process, it undermines the lessons and values of our faith traditions. Invoking the religious symbols, the Coalition is using the national crisis surrounding the President as a partisan clarion call to rally its political base. The Coalition is out of step with the mainstream. People of faith and goodwill affirm the important principle that instructs us not to play politics with personal or public tragedy and to refrain from arrogant and self-righteous judgement. The Interfaith Alliance (TIA) is a national nonprofit nonpartisan grassroots organization of people of faith and goodwill dedicated to promoting the positive and healing role of religion in public life. Founded in 1994, TIA has a national membership of 80,000 with more than 100 local alliances in 38 states. ### |
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