We've heard a lot of flapping from the Republicans the last couple of days about God and the Democratic platform.
At first, we rolled our eyes. At first, we thought it was just a question of political expediency. So we understood why the platform language was quickly amended (even though it didn't need to be).
And then we heard John Lewis speak tonight.
As a young Freedom Rider in 1961, the future Georgia Congressman was brutally beaten by whites for trying to enter a segregated waiting room in the South. After the election of 2008, Congressman Lewis said, one of his assailants came to Lewis's Capitol Hill office. He said, "I am one of the people who beat you. I want to apologize. Will you forgive me?" Lewis said, "I accept your apology."
Don't tell us cats that God isn't present at this convention.
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