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Article: [REPORT TO THE READERS] CAUTION: ``-ISMS'' CAN CREATE SCHISMS.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 24, 1996
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Byline: LYNN FEIGENBAUM
``The Navy's involvement in a Christian men's rally is sexist and anti-Semitic and crosses the legal boundary that separates church and state, the Anti-Defamation League has charged.''
That was the lead paragraph of the top MetroNews story Thursday, Nov. 14. And there were quick repercussions. The MetroNews banner the next day proclaimed, ``Navy backs out of Christian rally.''
The rally was a gathering of the Promise Keepers, a Christian men's group dedicated to strengthening family ties. And the ADL did indeed object to the Navy's co-sponsorship of the rally - on church-state grounds.
But the ADL never used the ...