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Seminarians for Change |
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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Contact:
Elsa Peters, Seminarians for Change July 13, 2004
914.261.0914, ep2148@columbia.edu
Future
Religious Leaders of New York City Demand Better Moral Responsibility from
Government at Republican National Convention
New York, NY,
July 13, 2004 – Seminarians for Change - representing many seminaries in
the New York City area including Union Theological Seminary, General
Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary and New York Theological
Seminary – will gather in a spirit of worship, meditation and prayer on
Sunday, August 29th, the day before the beginning of the
Republican National Convention in New York City. As future
faith leaders, we believe we must act on our deepest convictions to
prevent the misuse of religious language in political and public settings.
Concerned people of all faiths and political persuasions will be gathering
together with one unifying premise: governance is moral action.
We are the next
generation of religious leadership and we believe the role of religion in
society must respond non-violently to protect to the well being of all
people. Religious traditions can be voices of conscience that demand
our governments and political leaders accountability, reconciliation and
justice. We believe all that, as people of faith, we not only should
be involved in the political process, but we are called
because of our faith to protest the misuses and misinterpretation of
religious authority in public settings.
Our God is a
God of justice. The God we honor believes in the dignity, integrity
and value of each human being. Our God affirms and values human
rights. Human rights have been denied to our fellow Americans in
recent history. Both at home and abroad, our current administration
has used religious rhetoric to promote policies and to defend actions that
undermine the value of human life. We stand in faithful solidarity
against the use of religious language, against the inappropriate,
corruptive use of God-language to support such policies and actions –
against violence abroad and violence at home; against the usurpation of
civil and political rights and liberties; against the economic war on
low-income American families.
On Sunday,
August 29th, Seminarians for Change will demand that the
rights of all Americans deserve respect and protection.
Seminarians will stand together in prayer to demonstrate our belief that
all people of faith must reclaim the role of religion in public life.
As future religious leaders, we believe that the role of clergy is to
provide education on the issues that impact our communities through a
non-violent, pro-active, humanitarian voice.
Join us in
worship on Sunday, August 29th and pray for moral leadership
and moral action in the years to come.
Sponsored by
the Social Action Caucus at Union Theological Seminary.
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