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Last month, the Interfaith Alliance joined others in urging Obama to support a National Day of Prayer and Reflection "that restores and respects our nation's best values by explicitly inviting clergy from diverse faith traditions to participate equally and fully -- especially in events held on government property.

Backers of House Bill 444 rallied on Monday at an event organized by the Interfaith Alliance Hawaii, whose membership includes Christian, Jewish and Buddhist churches.

First Freedom First, a project sponsored jointly by Americans United and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation, sent letters to six presidential candidates in August, urging support for five religious liberty principles.

Religious leaders are also calling for an end to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, charging that true faith is "free and voluntary" while in practice Bush's faith-based initiative has been "nothing more than the cash cow of the Christian right:' The Interfaith Alliance held a press conference in Washington DC on April 26 calling the president's effort to fund religious organizations an "ill-conceived, unconstitutional experiment that creates government sponsored religion, and threatens the integrity of democracy and the sanctity of religion.

: founding member of the National Anti-Violence Project Roundtable Honors: The Advocate's 1992 Woman of the Year; recipient of the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award in 1999 Quote: "I think that America is taking another look at faith, and the Interfaith Alliance has always stood for the equality of gay and lesbian Americans.

September 12, Jim Wallis will address the forum and annual meeting of the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado at Park Hill United Methodist Church.

The letter is part of an effort organized by the Episcopal Church's office of government relations in coalition with the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Interfaith Alliance.

Joining Americans United on the brief are the Anti-Defamation League, the Hindu American Foundation, The Interfaith Alliance, the Union for Reform Judaism and Dr.