Interfaith Gathering

Aug 24, 2008

Democratic National Committee | Convention Committee

As a prelude to the opening of the Democratic National Convention, religious leaders led an interfaith service for delegates in the convention center. Bishop Charles E. Blake, West Angeles Church of God in Christ; Dr. Ingrid Mattson, President of the Islamic Society of North America; Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking author and .. Read More
As a prelude to the opening of the Democratic National Convention, religious leaders led an interfaith service for delegates in the convention center. Bishop Charles E. Blake, West Angeles Church of God in Christ; Dr. Ingrid Mattson, President of the Islamic Society of North America; Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking author and social activist; Rabbi Tzvi Weinreb; and others spoke. Richard Smallwood and Vision and the Trinity United Methodist Church Choir sang.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:16 Unidentified Speaker PLEASE WELCOME REV., THE RABBI, AND DR. WAVELAND TO OFFER THE OPENING LIVNI. [APPLAUSE]
00:00:32 Unidentified Speaker MADE THE PEACE AND BLESSING OF GOD ALMIGHTY UPON ALL OF US TODAY. OUR SACRED RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR...
00:01:19 Unidentified Speaker BLESSES ARE THE NATION TO CARE FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND INSTILL IN THEIR HEARTS LOVE, COURAGE, AND EDUCATION....
00:02:11 Unidentified Speaker LET US FULFILL OUR SACRED RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR NEIGHBORS. TO ONE ANOTHER HERE AND EVERYWHERE. HOLY...
00:03:05 Unidentified Speaker EVER LIVING GOD, INSPIRE US TO GIVE LIFE TO THIS VISION AND TO ENSURE THAT ALL OUR FELLOW CITIZENS...
00:03:47 Unidentified Speaker LETTUCE AFFIRM OUR SIXTH RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR NATION. GOD HAS GIFTED US WITH A NATION OF DIVERSE...
00:04:12 Unidentified Speaker MAY WE CONTINUE TO BE A NATION OF YOUR PEOPLE, O GOD, KEEPING SIGRID THE LOVE OF JUSTICE AND YOUR...
00:04:26 Unidentified Speaker OUR SACRED RESPONSIBILITY TO THE WORLD LIES IN THE CALLING TO BUILD PEACE IN THIS TIME OF WAR. TO...
00:05:03 Unidentified Speaker WERE THERE IS HATRED, LET THEM SO LOVE. WHERE THERE'S INJURY, HARDENED. WHERE THERE IS DOUBT, FAITH....
00:05:13 Unidentified Speaker GOD GIVES US THE RESPONSIBILITY TO LOOK THE LEAST FORTUNATE. HELP US ALL TO WORK FAITHFULLY FOR THE...
00:05:29 Unidentified Speaker WERE THERE IS DESPAIR, LET ME SO HOPE, WHERE THERE IS DARKNESS, LIGHT, OR THERE IS SADNESS, JOY.
00:05:40 Unidentified Speaker ST. FRANCIS ALSO TAUGHT US TO SEE GOD AND THE BEAUTY OF HIS CREATION, HELP US TO BE GOOD STEWARDS...
00:05:57 Unidentified Speaker O DIVINE MASTER, GRANT DID THAT WE SEEK TO BE CONSOLED AS TO CONSOLE. TO BE UNDERSTOOD AS TO UNDERSTAND....
00:06:20 Unidentified Speaker LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE WELCOME TO THE AS AND A DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION CEO, THE REV. LEAH DAUGHTRY....
00:06:46 Unidentified Speaker GOOD AFTERNOON. SHALOM. HOTEP. PRAISE THE LORD, EVERYBODY. [LAUGHTER]
00:07:02 Unidentified Speaker IT IS MY GREAT BLESSING TO SERVE AS CEO OF THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. [APPLAUSE]
00:07:16 Unidentified Speaker AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I AM ALSO THE PASTOR OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD PENTECOSTAL CHURCH IN WASHINGTON,...
00:07:27 Unidentified Speaker AND AS THE DAUGHTER OF FOUR GENERATIONS OF PASTORS AND A PASTOR MYSELF, I AM OVERJOYED TO WELCOME...
00:07:52 Unidentified Speaker OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS MANY HAVE HAD MUCH TO SAY ABOUT OUR EFFORTS TO BRING FAITH TO THE DEMOCRATIC...
00:08:20 Unidentified Speaker THOSE OF US IN THIS ROOM KNOW AT THAT DEMOCRATS ARE, HAVE BEEN, AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE PEOPLE CONTINUEFAITH....
00:08:38 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT THE CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE. BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT WE OCCUPY THIS EARTH...
00:09:56 Unidentified Speaker THESE VALUES OF FAIRNESS, OPPORTUNITY, INCLUSION, RESPONSIBILITY, AND RESPECT ARE CENTRAL TO MY FATITH...
00:10:18 Unidentified Speaker WE STAND AT A CROSSROADS TODAY. OUR JOBS ARE DISAPPEARING. WE'RE WORKING HARDER AND EARNING LESS....
00:13:20 Unidentified Speaker FOR IT REMAINS TRUE TO THERE IS MORE THAT UNITES US THAN IN DIVIDES US. AND SO YOU SHALL BE CALLED...
00:14:01 Unidentified Speaker AND IT IS NOW MY GREAT PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE MY GOVERNOR, AND GOV. BILL RITTER. [APPLAUSE]
00:14:27 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, REVEREND. I HAVE BEEN TOLD IN POLITICS THERE FEW EX TO DO NOT TRY TO FOLLOW. THAT WOULD...
00:15:20 Unidentified Speaker WHILE A MIGHT SEEM FITTING TO GIVE SOMETHING OF A WELCOMING POLITICAL SPEECH, I AM NOT GOING TO BECAUSE...
00:15:48 Unidentified Speaker SO WHEN THINKING ABOUT THIS AS AN INTERFACE CELEBRATION, I THOUGHT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I READ THE...
00:19:53 Unidentified Speaker PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING A GRAMMY, STELLAR, AND THE FULL AWARD WINNER, RICHARD SMALL WOULD -- SMALLWOOD...
00:20:19 Unidentified Speaker 150 SOMMES SAYS PRAISE GOD AND HIS SANCTUARY. (music) PRAISE WITH THE TEMPLE OF THE BANKS. THE NIECES...
00:25:35 Unidentified Speaker AMEN.
00:25:38 Unidentified Speaker AMEN.
00:25:47 Unidentified Speaker OUR SECOND RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR CHILDREN, THE MESSAGE WILL BE DELIVERED BY BISHOP CHARLES BLAKE,...
00:26:00 Unidentified Speaker THE PRESIDING BISHOP OF THE CHURCH OF GOD AND CHRIST. [APPLAUSE]
00:26:11 Unidentified Speaker I THINK YOU A CALL IT THE GRAND OLD CHURCH. [APPLAUSE]
00:26:17 Unidentified Speaker AND HIS MESSAGE WILL BE PRECEDED BY READING FROM THE TORAH FROM THE RABBI, A CONGREGATION EMANU-EL...
00:26:33 Unidentified Speaker AND IF YOU THINK THE THE GOVERNOR HAD A DIFFICULTY FOLLOWING LEAH, IMAGINE THIS HUMBLE RABBI TRYING...
00:26:42 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. I AM DOING A READING ABOUT FORGIVENESS AND THE FUTURE. JOSEPH AND NO LONGER CONTROL HIMSELF...
00:30:18 Unidentified Speaker FROM THE MOMENT OF THEIR BIRTH, AND EVEN BEFORE THEIR BIRTHS, OUR CHILDREN, ARE OUT OUR MIDST AND...
00:32:23 Unidentified Speaker WE ALL KNOW THAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ARE OUR MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE. BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, WE BOTH, INDIVIDUALLY,...
00:33:19 Unidentified Speaker THE YEAR EARLIER WE PUT OUR HEARTS INTO THEIR TOTAL DEVELOPMENT, THE LESS LIKELY IT IS THAT IT WILL...
00:36:12 Unidentified Speaker WE CELEBRATE THE HUSBANDS AND THE WIVES OF THE NATION AND THE WORLD WHOM OF PERSEVERED TO CONTRIBUTE...
00:36:46 Unidentified Speaker IT IS ONE THING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE ILLS OF SOCIETY. IT IS ANOTHER THING ALTOGETHER TO LAUNCH AN...
00:37:05 Unidentified Speaker MUCH AS THE CHILDREN OF THOSE HIS RESOURCES PLACE THEM BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL BE DOOMED TO POVERTY...
00:37:43 Unidentified Speaker THOSE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE FUTURE WILL DO WHAT THEY CAN TODAY TO CREATE THE WORLD THAT...
00:38:26 Unidentified Speaker MAY I OBSERVE, AS A PRO-LIFE DEMOCRAT? [APPLAUSE]
00:38:36 Unidentified Speaker MAN I OBSERVE THAT SOME OF US HAVE PHILOSOPHIC, HUMANITARIAN, AND THEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES? WITH THOSE...
00:39:08 Unidentified Speaker SURELY WE CANNOT BE PLEASED WITH THE ROUTINE ADMINISTRATION OF MILLIONS OF SURGICALLY TERMINATED PREGNANCIES....
00:40:22 Unidentified Speaker OTHERS VALLEY PROCLAIMED THEIR ADVOCACY -- LOUDLY PROCLAIM THEIR ADVOCACY FOR THE UNBORN. BUT THEY...
00:40:53 Unidentified Speaker THEY ARE PRESENTLY AND HISTORICAL IN SILENT. IF NOT INDIFFERENT TO THE SUFFERING OF OUR INNER CITIES,...
00:41:30 Unidentified Speaker SENATOR OBAMA AND ALL OF US SHOULD FOLLOW UP AND ELABORATE UPON HIS STATED INTENTION TO REDUCE THE...
00:41:53 Unidentified Speaker WILL RESULT IN THE PREVENTION OF UNWANTED PREGNANCIES AND WILL PROVIDE A VIABLE ALTERNATIVES IN THE...
00:42:13 Unidentified Speaker AS I CLOSE, IT MAY BE THAT SOME OF THE AREAS IN WHICH OUR GENERATION WILL BE EVALUATED WILL BE OUR...
00:44:28 Unidentified Speaker AMEN.
00:44:34 Unidentified Speaker OUR SACRED RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR NEIGHBOR -- THE MESSAGE WILL BE DELIVERED BY THE WRECRABBI, EXECUTIVE...
00:45:06 Unidentified Speaker META MEANS LOVE AND KINDNESS. WE WISH TO SHOW THIS TO ALL MEANING -- BEINGS. THIS SHOULD BE WHAT...
00:46:54 Unidentified Speaker SACRED RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR NEIGHBOR. [SPEAKING HEBREW] YOU SHOULD LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF....
00:55:33 Unidentified Speaker I FEEL MORE AT HOME. [LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE] OUR NEIGHBOR MAY BE UNEMPLOYED, OR SHE MAY BE FAIRLY --...
00:59:34 Unidentified Speaker AMEN. WE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PRESENCE OF THE MAJORITY WHIP OF CONGRESS, SENATOR CLIBURN. [APPLAUSE]...
01:00:06 Unidentified Speaker OUR SACRED RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR NATION. THE MESSAGE WILL BE OFFERED BY SISTER HELEN PREJEAN. THE...
01:00:35 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE TO START BY FIRST TELLING YOU ALL THAT IT IS AN HONOR TO BE AMONGST YOU HERE TODAY. [APPLAUSE]...
01:02:07 Unidentified Speaker HOURS -- OUR SECOND RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR NATION. THIS IS AN INVITATION TO ALL AMERICANS OF WHATEVER...
01:19:50 Unidentified Speaker YES, WE CAN. TALK ABOUT NOT WANTING TO FOLLOW SOMEBODY. [LAUGHTER] OUR FINAL MESSAGE FOCUSES ON OUR...
01:24:00 Unidentified Speaker AMEN. [APPLAUSE]
01:24:12 Unidentified Speaker IN THE NAME OF GOD THE MERCIFUL, THE COMPASSIONATE, MAY GOD'S PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL. OUR SACRED RESPONSIBILITY...
01:38:41 Unidentified Speaker MINE EYES. TO THE HILLS
01:38:51 Unidentified Speaker WHERE DOES MY HELP COME FROM? LORD, IT COMES FROM YOU.
01:39:05 Unidentified Speaker IT COMES FROM YOU.
01:39:09 Unidentified Speaker EVERY TIME I HAVE HAD A
01:39:11 Unidentified Speaker (music)
01:39:19 Unidentified Speaker WHEN?
01:39:29 Unidentified Speaker (music) IN TIMES OF THE TROUBLE (music)
01:39:40 Unidentified Speaker (music) LORD, YOU ARE MY STRENGTH.
01:39:42 Unidentified Speaker LORD, THERE IS NO ONE LIKE YOU ARE.
01:39:48 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE.
01:39:51 Unidentified Speaker EVERY TIME I GET THAT CHANCE, I LET MY HANDS.
01:39:58 Unidentified Speaker I LIFT MY HANDS. IN PRAISE TO YOU
01:40:08 Unidentified Speaker SEEN IT ONE MORE TIME. LORD, YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF MY STRENGTH
01:40:19 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE THE STORES -- A SOURCE OF MY STRENGTH
01:40:23 Unidentified Speaker OF THE JOY OF THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH.
01:40:27 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE
01:40:31 Unidentified Speaker I CANNOT PRAISE YOU ENOUGH.
01:40:42 Unidentified Speaker I LEFT MY HANDS IN PRAISE TO YOU.
01:40:48 Unidentified Speaker AMEN.
01:40:58 Unidentified Speaker AMEN.
01:41:05 Unidentified Speaker AMEN.
01:41:16 Unidentified Speaker AMEN. (music) (music) [APPLAUSE] (music) YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF MY STRENGTH (music) (music)
01:41:52 Unidentified Speaker STILL THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE. I'M GOING TO LET MY HANDS. (music) I LEFT MY HANDS IN PRAISE TO YOU....
01:42:16 Unidentified Speaker AMEN.
01:42:21 Unidentified Speaker IT IS SEPARATE LORD, YOU ARE MY HEALER. IT IS SO. LORD, YOU ARE MY DELIVERER. IT IS SO. LORD, YOU...
01:42:48 Unidentified Speaker (music) AMEN, AMEN (music) (music) [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE]
01:44:01 Unidentified Speaker HALLELUJAH.
01:44:03 Unidentified Speaker I AM GOING TO CONTAIN MYSELF. [LAUGHTER] TILL I GET INTO THE BACK, BISHOP. TO THE GLORY OF GOD, AMEN....
01:46:07 Unidentified Speaker u1 OUR CHILDRENu -- AND GOD HAS BLESSED US OF WITH A NEW GENERATION OF AMERICAN CHILDREN, REPRESENTATIVE...
01:47:38 Unidentified Speaker WE PRAY FOR GOD TO HELP IN RAISING A NEW GENERATIO!;oG tv THE PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL...
01:47:54 Unidentified Speaker GOD HAS TAUGHT US TO LOVE OUR NEIGHBORS AS WE LOVE OURSELVES. DO LOVE ALL THOSE AROUND US AS REAL...
01:48:12 Unidentified Speaker WE RENEW OUR PROMISES TO SEE OUR NEIGHBORS AND TO LOVE OUR FAMILIES, NOT IGNORE THEM AND TO SHARE...
01:48:23 Unidentified Speaker OUR SACRED RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR NATION -- THAT ALL (EOPLE FORM A SINGLE COMMUNITY TO DO THY A WILL...
01:49:30 Unidentified Speaker WE HONORJyBEn0/n COUNTRY AND MAY WE REACH BEYOND +#$sURcYOURSELVE2)t IF WE ARE TO RISE ABOVE OURSELVES....
01:49:42 Unidentified Speaker IN GOD'Sipcc MERCIFUL BENEFACTOR, THE -- MRSA FOR REDEEMER. AND THE ALMIGHTY HAS BLESSED US ALL TO...
01:50:06 Unidentified Speaker SURELY GOD LISTENS TO THOSE WHO PRAISE HIM. OUR LORD THE PRAISE -- BE PRAISED. AMEN. [APPLAUSE]...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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