Reply #117: The Traditional Democratic Base is the Faith Based Progressives

[Coastie for Truth]

We have a rich tradition of "faith based progressives" in the Democratic Party -- from Pittsburgh's Msgr Charles Owens Rice to MLK to Jesse Jackson to Michael Lerner.

"Faith Based" does not mean "Creationist" or "Pro-Birther" --- it means to look at poverty and injustice and illness and make a change for the better.

Remember the Faith Based Progressives were the foot soldiers of the Women's Suffrage Movement, the New Deal, the Child Labor Act, the Labor Standards Act, the Norris-LaGuardia Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act, the 1960's Peace Movement.

Nowhere is it written that a Progressive must be an agnostic or an atheist.

I am proud to be a Faith Based Progressive.