The Family Research Council says that it “promotes the Judeo-Christian worldview as the basis for a just, free, and stable society.”
Gary Bauer of American Values says “a belief in God and a commitment to the principles of our Judeo-Christian tradition … are what the country was founded on and they’re the secret to our prosperity.”
Focus on the Family says its “primary reason for existence is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ [based upon “pillars”] drawn from the wisdom of the Bible and the Judeo-Christian ethic.”.
The American Family Association says its “goal is to inform, motivate, and equip God’s people to take action on issues that threaten to undermine and destroy the traditional family and the Judeo-Christian values upon which our nation was founded.”
All four groups are sponsoring the Values Voter Summit beginning tomorrow, but it seems that none of them paid much attention to the “Judeo” aspect of their mission statements when planning this event:
The Family Research Council is holding its annual “Values Voter Summit” in Washington this weekend. The summit gives Republicans, including some would-be presidential candidates, a chance to play to activists — unless, that is, those activists happen to be Jewish.
The summit this year coincides with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and one of the religion’s most important holidays; it begins Friday night at sundown. There aren’t very many Jewish Republicans to begin with, but chances are very few of them will make it to the summit, to hear from the likes of Mitt Romney and others. There are more speakers on Friday — Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty (and also Stephen Baldwin) — but it’s hard to imagine many Jewish conservatives heading to Washington for the event just for one day.
Does the FRC think Jews don’t have values? Or was this just the only fall weekend they could get into the Omni Shoreham hotel?
