{"id":2726,"date":"2012-01-30T10:42:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2012-01-30T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:42:16","slug":"democratic-party-gets-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2726","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Party Gets Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I attended my county Democratic Party nomination convention and it really pissed me off. I was already a bit disenfranchised with the Party because included in last year\u2019s slate of endorsed candidates were a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dominionism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominionism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Dominionist<\/a> running for Judge and a Creationist running for County Council.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the convention was opened with a prayer to Jesus Christ. I have attended conventions in three counties and I have need had the convention open with a prayer. Even in Lancaster County which is much more religious than my current Delaware County, didn\u2019t open with a prayer.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness though, I could somewhat understand if there was a prayer that was non-specific. Most of this country is Christian and that Jews have a strong lobby and are very involved in politics. If there was a prayer to a generic \u201cgod\u201d or something, I would still be pissed, but at least I would get what was going on. As it is thought, there tend to be a lot of Jews in the Democratic Party and in fact, there also tend to be a lot of secular people and atheists too. I even saw someone in the crowd who I think was a Sheik.<\/p>\n<p>So, what the fuck? Why would the Democratic Party deliberately exclude all these people including atheists? What has happened to the Democratic Party? Now I know this might just be a county level problem, but sadly the national party hasn\u2019t really done a great job standing up against religious extremism either.<\/p>\n<p>I intend to complain to the county party about this and I hope that if anyone else is involved in politics (in any political party), and your local party starts bringing up religion (which if you are a Republican, that is going to be a lot), you will complain too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=6657e586-f1cc-444a-9739-d5b86f01dc46\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2726\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I attended my county Democratic Party nomination convention and it really pissed me off. 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