On May 19th, over 50 religious leaders from a diverse range of faiths and denominations came to Washington, DC to lobby members of Congress on support of the Employee Free Choice Act. The newly-formed coalition of religious leaders and people of faith--Faith Leaders for Workplace Fairness--publicly announced their support for the labor reform bill on a conference call with press last week, calling the legislation a "moral imperative" and a civil and human right.

Watch our video of the day here:

Over the last few days, several conservative websites and corporate interests have decided that such a coalition is unacceptable, because they apparently own all the stock on religion.

Rather than actually debate the substantive aspects of the legislation (other than constantly repeating the lie that it eliminates "secret ballot elections," which, unfortunately for them, doesn't make it true) these groups have decided to, instead, mock these people of God.

The basic argument goes something along the lines of, "how dare clergy members and rabbis insinuate that God would believe in social justice!"

Right-wing blogger/commentator Michelle Malkin claims that these members of clergy are a new "front group." Apparently, she's decided to take it upon herself to declare that their strong beliefs in God and their dedication towards social justice are fake and just purely expedience at work.

Speaking of front groups, the National Association of Manufacturers, the big lobby group for some of the largest manufacturers in the world, have decided that it'd be fun to mock the fact that members of different faiths have joined together in agreement, calling it "kumbayaism.":

"Light a candle. Sing a song. Destroy a job."

Perhaps the reason for their mocking is because there's something that they just can't understand: there are some people out there who actually worship something other than money.