Dems Not Keen on Godless

I've written about Leah Daughtry, Howard Dean's chief of staff, previously. Earlier I expressed my disgust that she is leading the Democrats' PR campaign to make the them the party of Yahweh. And she showed her colors once again at the convention.

Bob Tiernan is an agnostic… On Sunday, Tiernan attended the first event at the Democratic National Convention, an Interfaith Gathering attended by some 2,000 people at the Colorado Convention Center. Speaking were distinguished priests, rabbis, imams and religion scholars. "I sat through, I guess I'd have to call it, a service," says Tiernan. "People were responding in unison. In the middle, Leah Daughtry (a pastor and CEO of the Democratic National Convention Committee) spoke and said that despite what the media says, Democrats are people of faith."

Tiernan says he couldn't stand it any more. "I stood up and said, 'I'm a democrat but I'm not a person of faith.' I said, 'This looks like a church service to me and I never thought I would see the Democrats doing something like this." At that point, the police came and escorted Tiernan from the hall. They told him he could leave or stay and see what the Democrats wanted to do with him, so he stayed but nobody did anything so he left.

The author of the above, Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn, concludes:

The Democrats know that they have a large non-believing constituency and they also know that to not accept them is the height of hypocrisy. On the other hand they realize that to recognize them formally would be the kiss of death.

It's so nice to know that we non-religious folks are second-class in the eyes of the Democrats. (Lower than whale shit in the eyes of the Republicans.)

You can catch Mr. Tiernan on Freethought Radio tomorrow. It will be broadcast a half hour earlier this week at 10:30 a.m. on The Mic 92.1 here in Madison.