Include nonreligious in DNC convention opening ceremony

The Interfaith Gathering is the first official event of the 2008 Democratic National Convention and signals an opportunity for all those in the faith community to unite around the faith and values they share as Democrats. But what about Democrats who do not have a faith? What will they do at a gathering that DNC Convention CEO Leah Daughtry declared "is a time of celebration of various religious traditions" in the Democratic Party?

We who are without religious faith are part of a constituency worthy of being included as equals in any unity event that the Democratic Party or any other political party holds. Please do not turn the Democratic Convention and Party into an instrument for promoting or favoring religious faith over no religious faith. Religious faith is an option and those who opt to reject religious faith should have an equal role and equal standing at all Democratic Party events, within all Democratic Party institutions, and at all similar civic events in both word and deed without any exceptions whatsover.