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AP

Falwell’s ‘Vote Christian’ Criticized

A Jewish organization is calling on the Rev. Jerry Falwell to retract a
“vote Christian in 2008” statement made months ago in a letter raising money
for his ministries.

The criticism of Falwell appeared Monday on the Web site of the
Anti-Defamation League, a group organized in 1913 to fight anti-Semitism.

Falwell, founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., and Moral
Majority, included with his mass fund-raising letter for Falwell Ministries a
sticker that reads, “I Vote Christian.”

Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director, said
Falwell’s statements are “directly at odds with the American ideal and should
be rejected.”

“Understanding the danger of combining religion and politics, our founding
fathers wisely created a political system based on individual merit and
religious inclusiveness,” Foxman said.

Falwell told The News & Advance of Lynchburg Tuesday that his statement was
misunderstood.

“What I was saying was for conservative Christian voters to vote their
values, which are pro-life and pro-family,” Falwell said. “I had no intention
of being anti-Jewish at all.”

Just another example of how the religious fanatics are trying to take over
our country.