‘God talk’ and the Democrats
God was out and now God is in. And Jerusalem wasn’t the capital of Israel and now it is. The accusations that God had been “purged” from the Democrats’ national platform seemed too much for the party to bear.
On September 5, its national convention restored the divine to the document, as well as a statement declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
A crisis the party didn’t seem to see coming provided one of the few unscripted scenes of the convention season, a chaotic day that highlighted the debate among the Democrats about religion and politics.
