ADL Leader Criticizes Conservative Christian Groups

At a meeting in New York of the Anti-Defamation League's national commission over the weekend, ADL Director Abraham Foxman charged that institutionalized Christianity in the U.S. has grown so extremist that it poses a tangible danger to the principle of separation of church and state and threatens to undermine the religious tolerance that the Jewish group promotes. Ha'aretz on Sunday reported that Foxman in his speech said: "Today we face a better financed, more sophisticated, coordinated, unified, energized and organized coalition of groups in opposition to our policy positions on church-state separation than ever before. Their goal is to implement their Christian worldview. To Christianize America. To save us!" He particularly singled out Focus On Family, Alliance Defense Fund, the American Family Association, and the Family Research Council as groups that concern him.