The Interfaith Alliance

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Interfaith Alliance protects faith and freedom by respecting individual rights, protecting the boundaries between religion and government, and uniting diverse voices to challenge extremism and build common ground.

Interfaith Alliance has 185,000 members from more than 75 faith traditions and belief systems,^[1] in addition to many atheists and agnostics. Members of The Interfaith Alliance realize the powerful role that religion plays in America, and they value the positive impact that religious belief can have on American politics. However, The Interfaith Alliance's concern is that religion and the United States government are becoming dangerously entangled. TIA believes that religion is being manipulated as a tool to influence policy and advance political strategy. The Interfaith Alliance works to ensure the sanctity of religion and the integrity of politics. The group also supports an end to discrimination based on sexual orientation.^[2]

The Interfaith Alliance and its partner organization, The Interfaith Alliance Foundation, work out of their main office in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The group has local chapters around the country.^[3] The Interfaith Alliance UK is a charitable interreligious organisation based in the Great Britain to promote interfaith dialogue and advocacy, and is independent of the Interfaith Alliance in the United States.^[4]

The president of the organization is Rev. Dr. Welton Gaddy, who serves as Pastor for Preaching and Worship at Northminster (Baptist) Church in Monroe, Louisiana. Rev. Gaddy is also the host of "State of Belief", a weekly radio show on Air America Radio, on which he claims that "religion and radical freedom are best friends and how the religious right is wrong—wrong for America and bad for religion.