{"id":7001,"date":"2011-09-07T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2011-09-07T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T19:40:19","slug":"muslims-buddhists-hindus-to-speak-at-national-cathedrals-911-service-but-no-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/09\/muslims-buddhists-hindus-to-speak-at-national-cathedrals-911-service-but-no-evangelicals","title":{"rendered":"Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus to speak at National Cathedral&#8217;s 9\/11 service, but no evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., has scheduled \u201cA Call to Compassion\u201d interfaith prayer vigil on Sept. 11 &#8212; however not a single protestant or evangelical has been invited to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Who was invited?\u00a0A Roman Catholic bishop, a Jewish rabbi, Buddhist nun, a Hindu priest, the president of the Islamic Society of North America and a Muslim musician.<\/p>\n<p>Notably excluded are\u00a016.6 million\u00a0Southern Baptists, America&#8217;s largest protestant denomination.\u00a0Completely left off the program was anybody\u00a0represented by the National Association of Evangelicals: No Prebyterians, Methodists, Lutherans,\u00a0Congregationalists, Wesleyans or Mennonites. Nobody from the Church of Christ or the Assemblies of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising,\u201d said Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. \u201cThere is a tragic intolerance toward Protestants and particularly toward evangelicals and I wish the president would refuse to speak unless it was more representative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard Weinberg, the Cathedral\u2019s director of communications, confirmed that Southern Baptists were not extended an invitation to participate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal was to have interfaith representation,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cThe Cathedral itself is an Episcopal church and it stands to reason that our own clergy serve as Christian representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is the small problem that the Episcopal church is tiny these days &#8212; barely 2 million members nationwide. However, Weinberg said the Washington National Cathedral serves as the \u201cspiritual home for the nation\u201d and as such, he said that \u201cdiversity was first and foremost\u201d a factor in the planning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., has scheduled \u201cA Call to Compassion\u201d interfaith prayer vigil on Sept. 11 &#8212; however not a single protestant or evangelical has been invited to participate. 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