Media's 'Go-To' Man on Religion in Public Schools, Charles Haynes, Unqualified, Has Conflict of Interest, By Nancy Manno, co-host of the radio talk show 'In Great Company'

Tuesday March 27, 6:00 am ET

LINWOOD, N.J., March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Freedom Forum First Amendment Center Senior Scholar, Charles Haynes, the news media's "go-to" man on religion in education, is not qualified to speak on legal Constitutional issues and Haynes should recuse himself when discussing teaching Bible in public schools because of a conflict of interest due to his longstanding association with the Bible Literacy Project, which is marketing a textbook to public schools.

For the full article to go Media's 'Go-To' Man on Religion in Public Schools

On December 21, the Bible Literacy Project (BLP) responded to an article by Dr. Wiley Drake (Second Vice-President of the Southern Baptist Convention), which pointed out the error in the BLP's textbook, THE BIBLE AND ITS INFLUENCE, that states on page 238 that Jesus was born in Nazareth. The BLP said this would be "corrected" in the second printing of the textbook due January 2007.

This acknowledgement of error by the BLP is interesting given that its website claims the textbook doesn't contain errors, a number of which I have described in previous articles. Let's see if the BLP's new textbook edition corrects "all" of the errors. And I wonder if the BLP will give all the schools using the current edition free new editions to make up for selling them texts with errors which they claimed weren't there?

If you want to see the BLP's list of reviewers and consultants (who did not catch the errors before initial publication), look here.

Among those listed is Dr. Charles Haynes, senior scholar at the First Amendment Center. However, given Dr. Drake's criticism of Dr. Haynes, the BLP now seems to be trying to distance itself from the latter.

To read the entire article, please go to The Christian News Wire. (The article will open in a new window).

There have been many articles in the liberal press by Charles Haynes, touting him as an expert on issues of religion in the public arena, especially in the area of public schools.

It should be known that:

Charles Haynes is author of a Communitarian Manifesto on Religious Education.

The Communitarian Network, who Charles Haynes writes for, has been written about by both Joseph Farah, founder of World Net Daily, and General Ben Partin. Joseph Farah says “the best I can decipher of this popular new idea of Communitarianism is that it is not a new idea at all. To put it in its simplest form, I would describe it as a form of Communism for people who believe in God”. General Ben Partin says that the bottom line of the Communitarians is to bring in Communism.

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