Dan Klein profiles Rabbi Shmuely Boteach, a GOP candidate for Congress:
Boteach lives in Bergen County, [New Jersey] one of the nation’s few jurisdictions that still has blue laws, forcing businesses to close on Sundays. While for years he’s waged a high-profile campaign to encourage "family Fridays," as a lawmaker he says he’d promote quality family time partly by extending blue laws across the country. When Boteach talks about values, he’s not just talking about the family. He believes that the economic crisis was exacerbated by a culture that equates money with happiness and confuses greed with entrepreneurship. It’s when values are eroded, he believes, that the government feels the need to step in.
But Boteach differs from his evangelical counterparts on key social issues, telling Klein:
The social-sexual obsession is destroying America and the Republican party in particular … How are we going to fix marriage by focusing on gay men?
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