Mayor Karen Bass – joined by two city council members and more than 35 interfaith leaders – recognized Bishop John Harvey Taylor June 26 at City Hall in advance of his retirement and as part of the city’s 11th annual Pluralism Day observance. “Leadership with Moral Courage” was the theme for the event, organized by the city’s Civil + Human Rights Department and hosted by its director, Capri Maddox, and Joumana Silyan Saba, director of civic participation and civil rights.
Watch video of Bishop Taylor’s remarks here.
Watch video of remarks by Mayor Bass and City Council members here.
Watch video of interfaith panel here.
Watch video of remarks by Capril Maddox here.
Bishop Taylor offered remarks on the Golden Rule, followed by remarks of panelists Rabbi Sarah Hronsky, president of the Los Angeles Council of Religious Leaders; Salam Al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and Dr. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, chair of the A.M.E. church’s denomination-wide social action commission, with discussion facilitated by Aziza Hasan, executive director of NewGround: A Muslim Jewish Partnership for Change. Opening meditations were offered by Nirinjan Singh Khalsa of the California Sikh Council and the Vedanta Society’s Swami Mahayogananda, president of the Interreligious Council of Southern California.
