Lincoln Memorial in Washington for talk-show host Glenn Beck's "Restore Honor in America" rally. Joining Beck on the platform were over 240 male and female clergy belonging to the ecumenical ministerial group he has formed, the "Black-Robed Regiment".

The term "Black-Robed Regiment" is a reference to clergymen of the Revolutionary War era, who were said to form an additional "regiment" of the Continental Army as they spurred revolutionary fervor from their pulpits.

As Beck told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly after the rally, the group on the memorial steps consisted of "240 pastors, priests, rabbis and imams on stage [who] all locked arms saying the principles of America need to be taught from the pulpit." Beck said that even atheists are welcome to be involved in the movement, because theyknow how to "self-regulate" in the same way that Christians and Jews follow the Ten Commandments.

According to published news reports, among those who have enlisted in Beck's "Black-Robed Regiment" are Liberty University president Jerry Falwell, Jr.; former Focus on the Family president James Dobson; Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; rabbi and management consultant David Lapin; television star and columnist Chuck Norris; mega-church pastor John Hagee; a number of Roman Catholic priests; and even some Muslim imams.

Beck hosted a pre-rally "Divine Destiny" event featuring members of the "regiment" in the concert hall of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Rabbi Lapin, steeped in his Christ-denying legalism, spoke at the event without a microphone because he believes that Jews