It’s about time the Democrats starting talking about their faith. The very idea that Republicans are the only Christians in this country is beyond the pale. If you have to stand on a mountian and declare your faith and your “superiority” because of your faith, you are not the Chrisitan the good Lord would want to make as his poster child. There is nothing Christian about serving the rich and not only ignoring the least amongst us, but making their lives even worse.

You know it’s a different kind of candidate forum when Hillary Clinton allows that she sometimes prays (no doubt, she says, to some divine eye-rolling ), “Oh, Lord, why can’t you help me lose weight ?” and describes how “prayer warriors” sustained her through the public dissection of her husband’s infidelity. Or when Barack Obama muses on the nature of Good vs. Evil. Or when John Edwards recounts that he “strayed away from the Lord” in adulthood, only to find that “my faith came roaring back” after the death of his 16-year-old son. This is not Michael Dukakis’ Democratic Party. Instead, as was shown by Monday night’s forum on faith, sponsored by CNN and the liberal evangelical group Sojourners, it is a party on a mission: to make inroads into Republicans’ ability to attract and, more important, turn out religious voters. “The biggest thing is that it happened,” Mara Vanderslice, a Democratic consultant who headed John Kerry’s 2004 efforts to connect with religious voters, said of the event. “Think how far we’ve come from just a couple of years ago, when Republicans claimed religion and religious Americans.” Why sweat the God gap ?