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To recognize the Interfaith Association of Central Ohio (IACO), in promoting interfaith understanding and cooperation among different faith traditions.
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WHEREAS, the City Council of Columbus, Ohio and its surrounding areas are nationally recognized as places welcoming diversity and moral integrity in its operation; and
WHEREAS, eight major faith traditions - Baha'l, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jain, Jewish, and Sikh - work together in IAOC, to create awareness, understanding, and tolerance of the diversity of religious expression and beliefs; and
WHEREAS, the IAOC has discovered that interfaith understanding allows people to go beyond merely tolerating each other's beliefs to one of respecting and appreciating the differences of religious expression; and
WHEREAS, interfaith understanding creates the awareness of the great similarities and a strong sense of common purpose between all faiths, in that all faiths believe in the Golden Rule concept; and
WHEREAS, the Association's Main Event luncheon will be held on August 8, 2010 at the Lincoln Theatre. The program showcases the art of movement in a presentation entitled Faith in Motion: Sacred Dances from East and West. This event highlights subtle aspects of eastern and western faith-associated motions as demonstrated and described by professional dancers Kathryn Mihelick and Andrea Shearer of the Leaven Dance Company at Kent State University and Smitha Magal of the Silambam Dance School in Dublin, Ohio; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That this Council does hereby recognize Sunday, August 8, 2010 as Interfaith Understanding Day in the City of Columbus.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this Resolution be presented to the Interfaith Association of Central Ohio (IACO).