Comments about ‘Popular author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach seeks to become first rabbi in Congress’

Rabbi Shmuley is a great man. I would vote for him in a second. He has a very strong appreciation for traditional core American values.

This gung-ho rabbi believes in strong families and strengthening marriages. What he's not explaining is why he thinks this is the business of the U.S. Congress. He proposes a tax deduction for marriage counseling. Is that what Republicans now want taxpayers to start subsidizing?

Why is it that a conservative Republican sees no incongruity between such priorities and the banner GOP contention that too much government is what's wrong with America?

@Craig Clark

A subsidy is when the government actively takes money from tax payers and then gives that money to a person/cause/business.

A tax deduction is when the government doesn't take money from the tax payer (or returns it to them)...this is sometimes done/offered as incentive.

Can you see how a subsidy has more big government hands involved in it than a tax deduction does? Can you see how the government gets to fully control how/where subsidies are spent while taxpayers are in control of their own deductions? These are VERY different beasts.

By the way, taxing less and seeking to strengthen the traditional family are not incongruous with conservative principles nor do these two things get the government overly involved. Your rhetorical question is nothing more than a weak partisan attack.

Rabbi Schmuley is a man of integrity and principle who believes in conservative values. If I lived in his district I would vote for him. Maybe I'll contribute to his campaign.

There. I did it. I contributed to his campaign and invited all of my facebook friends and twitter followers to do the same. Go Schmuley!

His rabbinical background should be irrelevant. He wants to "promote the general Welfare...." (as stated in the Constitution) which includes integrity of the family, he doesn't want not legislate it.

Some points for Rabbi Shmuel;

1- Yes, family (mishpacha in Hebrew) is important. What specifically will he do to protect it?
2- Of course Romney couldn't "deny" his religion, duh. Embrace it? Yeah. Discuss it? Nevah.
3- Jesus was kosher? Absolutely. But was he mishugina (crazy) when he admitted to being the Meshiach? Gotta get his book, because I've seen how his debates veer to crazy town.
4- I agree that the Repubs need to rescue our country asap, hence this Independent will vote Mitt. But financial commin sense does not have anything to do with spiritual parity... So let's leave that part out if the factors for prez.
5- If Herman Cain couldn't woo the RNC with his royal ethnicity alone, at least his book sales didn't suffer. Ditto for Rabbi Shmuley.

6- And lastly- I'll enjoy endorsing him just to haggle my lib friends with the prejudice card. How dare they not support a Jew for POTUS? Too bad he hasn't any Ethiopian ancestry somewhere.

great.....more tax breaks for married folks who 50% end in divorce, seems like a bad investmant and a waste of my tax dollars.