LEWISBURG – At the peak of attendance at Saturday’s ‘We The People’ rally in Lewisburg, over 300 people gathered, applauded, and held signs, while the US Constitution was read through two times.
The event in Hufnagle Park was organized by a four churches who wanted it to be a non-partisan, all-inclusive event. The first reader was Susquehanna Valley Conservatives president Stan Zellers. He was followed by Congregation Beth-El Rabbi Nina Mandel.
Sara Kelly is one of the organizers, “We started with welcoming everyone on behalf of the four congregations, and saying that what we wanted to do was to find out what we all have in common. We wanted to start with the Constitution, and we read the preamble together as a group.”
“Then, when we had gone through the Constitution all the way through, we did the preamble again…as a call-and-response, Ann Keeler-Evans led that, and that really brought home to everyone because we got to say what was important to us too, and that was really neat.”
While the Constitution was read aloud, many people followed along with small copies of the document. The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Central Susuehanna Valley, Congregation Beth-El, Shiloh United Church of Christ, and Sunbury Islamic Center sponsored the ‘We the People: Rally in Valley, and organizers said they hope to have future dialogues with all sides of important political viewpoints represented.
