Why do they call it the Christian Right when so many of its best spokespeople are Jewish? Syndicated columnist Don Feder, talk show host Dennis Prager, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, film critic Michael Medved, pornography researcher Judith Reisman: all these find common cause with conservative evangelicals.
And how about intellectuals Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol, or talk show host Laura Schlessinger, or journalist Charles Krauthammer? Other influential heroes of the Christian Right are Jewish converts: former abortionist and now pro-life advocate Bernard Nathanson and World Magazine editor Marvin Olasky.
And there’s another category of Jewish leaders that the Christian Right has been willing to follow: Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Lewis Libby, and Elliott Abrams. Several of them have not been convicted of any crimes, something which cannot be said for certain Christian ministers.
The moral is that right doesn’t always mean Christian. And perhaps, that Right doesn’t always mean right.
hmmm, i don’t follow the right (or politics in general) enough to have any clue how many jews (or even christians) are prominent spokespeople for the right.
but i know several jews and not a one of them would even remotely consider themselves republican. perhaps it’s the christian right not so much because there’s a large herd of christians leading, but because there’s a large herd of christians following.