[TaxRelief]

Leading the movement for unity among religions is Charles Haynes, former director of the First Liberty Institute and "senior scholar for religious freedom" at the Freedom Forum. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Character Education Partnership (see Character Training For Global Citizenship) and edited the acclaimed book, Finding Common Ground: A First Amendment Guide to Religion and Public Education. His popular inter-faith program has joined such unlikely partners as:

• The National Council of Churches and the National Association of Evangelicals

• The liberal National Education Association (NEA) and the Christian Educators Association

• The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD, curriculum arm of the NEA) and the National Association of Evangelicals

• People for the American Way (PAW) and the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs

• The National School Boards Association and the Christian Legal Society

• The Anti-Defamation League and the Christian Coalition [i,  ii,  iii]

These strange alliances alone should raise questions about Charles Haynes' First Amendment Guide. So should his membership on The Pluralism Project's Advisory Board, which includes Wiccan author Margot Adler and Professor Diana Eck, an authority on Hinduism who chairs Harvard's Committee on the Study of Religion. 

This info is blatantly stolen from a website that I can no longer find. Sorry.

[Prospero]

I appreciate it, whatever the source... Interesting. And I did garble the headlines. Some of us have been sitting on this story because we knew even Basnight would hit the roof when he discovered what Rand had done. (Rand didn't even ask the permission of the House, to whom the Chapel belongs as well as the Senate. Here's the original story, which I'm getting ready to post. http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/v-text_newsletter/story/2088605p-8467064c.html What typical tripe from the arrogant Tony Rand.