Senate Democrats launch 'Word to the Faithful' Web site

WASHINGTON (RNS) - Concerned that Democrats are seen as a party that is hostile or ambivalent toward religion, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on July 19 unveiled a new Web site with "A Word to the Faithful."

The Web site - at http://democrats.senate.gov/faith.html - features photos of Reid meeting with mainline Protestant and Catholic leaders, as well as statements on the National Day of Prayer and Holocaust Memorial Day, among others.

The bare-bones site promotes "faith symposiums" hosted by Reid, a Mormon, in Las Vegas and Sen. Blanche Lincoln in Little Rock, Ark. It also has links to speeches by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., to Seventh-day Adventists and others.