Imagine: had the United Nations offered a proposal to its member nations to adopt a document on human rights called \u201cJudeo-Christian Values.\u201d Consider how inflammatory that would have been. Besides being clearly objectionable to all religious other than Judaism and Christianity, it would have left out in the cold individuals who do not subscribe to any religion.<\/p>\n

Eleanor Roosevelt knew how to build a coalition without throwing insults at others and by considering inclusiveness to be a primary value. She favored understanding over a propaganda machine.<\/p>\n

John Kasich is considered by many to be the most well-grounded of the Republican candidates for president. But his views on an agency to promote Judeo-Christian values is not only removed from what Eleanor Roosevelt stood for, but also from recent Republican presidents. Can you imagine Dwight D. Eisenhower favoring such an exclusionary strategy? Richard Nixon knew a great deal about foreign affairs and did not want to be provocative where not necessary. Ronald Reagan never seemed like a religious crusader, and even George W. Bush complimented Islam in the days after 9-11.<\/p>\n

Should John Kasich wind up getting the Republican nomination because he is the least distant from reality among his competitors, he must learn more about living in a multi-cultural world. A good place to start would be to drop the crusade and accept the principles of an already implemented document. Republicans complain that President Obama needed too much on-the-job training, but if their best candidate is so offensive to non-Jews and non-Christians (and actually quite a few Jews and Christians), then he will give the term \u201con-the-job\u201d training a whole new meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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