[CSPS] EAGLE ad

[Howard Marchitello]

Dear CSPS Friends,

You have no doubt been monitoring--through the emails from Hugh 
Stearns--the current issue with the CS City Council, prayer, and the matter 
of the Mayor's recent (and egregious) comments about the status of CS as a 
"Christian community."

CSPS has been asked to endorse--as an organization--the full-page ad (with 
signatures) to be placed in THE EAGLE. Kate and I are therefore asking for 
your opinion on this question. To my mind, though this isn't strictly a 
public school issue (and is therefore only tangentially related to our work 
as a group), it is nevertheless a separation of church and state issue, 
which is indeed one of our core concerns and has therefore always been at 
the heart of CSPS.

I expect (and understand) that there may be a variety of opinions on the 
question of our official endorsement. Please let me or Kate 
(k-kelly at tamu.edu) know if you would like CSPS to endorse or to decline to 
endorse the ad. We will abide by the majority opinion.

And may I also ask that you respond asap: the ad will move forward quickly 
and we should make an active decision on this.

Thanks, as always,
Howard

PS   I will be heading out of town on Thursday for several days; you should 
respond to Kate after Wed. evening.