Article: [REPORT TO THE READERS] CAUTION: ``-ISMS'' CAN CREATE SCHISMS.(COMMENTARY)

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 ...

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