Media Advisory by the Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care
Senator Lieberman: “Hear Our Prayers”
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, A coalition of area clergy will deliver hundreds of prayer cards (collected at a candlelight vigil for health care reform held outside Sen. Lieberman’s home last week) to his Hartford district office Tuesday, November 24, 2009. Participants will gather and host a prayer vigil at 11:30 am and a clergy delegation with deliver the prayer cards inside of Lieberman’s Hartford office at 12:00 pm located at One Constitution Plaza, 7th Floor.
DETAILS: On Tuesday, November 24, religious leaders representing multiple faiths will try to again deliver personal prayers from constituents of Senator Joe Lieberman (I) calling upon him to support health care reform. On Sunday, November 15, over five hundred people from across Connecticut gathered outside the senator’s Stamford home for a candlelight vigil organized by clergy and congregants from Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Unitarian Universalist congregations.
During the interfaith service, hundreds of people wrote personal prayers to the Senator urging his support for a public health care option and calling on him to give up his plans to filibuster reform legislation. However, when rabbis, priests, and imams attempted to deliver the completed cards, they were turned away on order of building security who had been directed not to accept any offerings. And when a neighbor residing in Senator Lieberman’s building who attended the vigil tried to deliver the prayer cards, she was turned away as well.
Senator Lieberman has refused to listen to advocates, doctors, and small business leaders about their support for including a public option in any health care reform bill. He has refused to meet with faith leaders to discuss their belief in expanding access to quality, affordable medical coverage. He has turned his back on his constituents by threatening to join a filibuster when legislation with a public option is debated in the US Senate, effectively killing long overdue reform efforts that would benefit those most in need.
The Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care is a multiracial, multicultural group of religious leaders of diverse faith traditions from across Connecticut. The organization has been a partner in the healthcare4every1 campaign to pass SustiNet — landmark legislation that creates a state public option in Connecticut and addresses insurance access, cost and quality.
Media Contacts:
Janet Davenport, Universal Health Care Foundation of
CT, 860/989-4220
Matt O’Connor, CSEA SEIU Local 2001, 860/221-5696
Peggy Buchanan, Connecticut AFL-CIO, 860/805-0725
Spokespersons: Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, Congregation Beth Israel,
860/233-8215
Pastor Abraham Hernandez, Christian Coalition for Social Change,
203/444-2625
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Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care, 77 Huyshope Avenue,
Room 210, Hartford, Connecticut 06106
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The GroundHog
hkrempel
neurochem1
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theamontanez
jonpelto
Dear Joe,
This is not the approach to politics you started with. What happened to listening to your constituents….the people, not the insurance companies. Your mother did not raise you to go down in history as the one who destroyed the people’s chances at health care reform… this is not the legacy you looked towards when you entered this arena. Step back…. remember the young man who studied the history of the democratic party to begin his journey in politics….. learn from that history and be one of those who might grace the next pages of “Profiles in Courage.” Vote with our Party and our President. Vote for the people you once identified with and a=wanted to help.