2000 People of faith will play a major role, perhaps even the decisive role, in determining the outcome of the 2000 national election. The two major candidates for the presidency and their running mates have embraced the language and symbols of people of faith as an integral part of their campaigns.
Many issues motivate people of faith as they make decisions about national leadership.
However, in this particular election year, few, if any, issues are more important in that decision-making process than the next President's impact on the future makeup and direction of the Supreme Court. The Interfaith Alliance is made up of people from over 50 different religious traditions and a variety of political philosophies and allegiances. Through nonpartisan programs, we work to involve people of faith in the electoral process even as in the whole of the political process. I am not here even to intimate much less suggest that a person of faith must vote for a particular party or candidate in order to validate his or her identity as a person of faith. Using political litmus tests to determine the authenticity of people's faith is the profoundly misguided methodology of the religious right.