Feder Starts Jews Against Christian Defamation

Former Boston Herald columnist Don Feder has founded a new group called Jews Against Christian Defamation – and he says "if Christians fail, America will fail.”

"We formed Jews Against Christian Defamation because we felt a real need for Jews as Jews to respond to attacks on Christians,” Feder said in an interview with Christianity Today.

"Oftentimes when Christians are attacked and Christian organizations object, the response is, ‘Well, you’re thin-skinned. You’re overly sensitive. Unless people are completely complimentary, you think it’s an attack. There’s self-interest involved.’

"With a Jewish organization or a group of Jews taking this position, no one can accuse us of self-interest, because we’re not Christians, but we’re objecting to attacks on Christians.

"Beyond that, as American Jews we’re concerned about the moral decline of America, and we view attacks on Christians basically as attacks on biblical morality and part of the moral deconstruction of America.

"Since Christians are being attacked for adhering to Judeo-Christian morality, which of course includes our morality, we felt that we had to respond.”

The group, which was founded in April, includes six rabbis – three Orthodox, two Conservative and one Reform.

But despite differences in religious approach, what unites members "is our political perspective, which tends to be, obviously, very similar to that of traditional Catholics and evangelical Christians,” said Feder.

He told Christianity Today he hopes the group will raise the level of awareness about increasing political attacks on Christians in a country "founded by Christians and the tenets of Christianity.”

Christians are "not being attacked on theological grounds, they’re being attacked on moral grounds,” said Feder.

"They’re being attacked because they object to same-sex marriage; they object to abortion on demand; they support public displays of the Ten Commandments; they support voluntary school prayer.

"Christians are the last remaining obstacle to the triumph of secular humanist values. And that’s why we say that if Christians fail, America will fail.”