FOLLOWING the Vatican’s recent call to Spaniards not to vote for Spain’s socialist Government, the US’s oldest rabbinical group has exhorted Jews not to vote for anti-family values candidates in the upcoming presidential elections.

Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada this week issued the following statement:

It is very important for our community to demonstrate its appreciation for our wonderful country by exercising our civic obligation to vote. However, it is even more important that we do not support any candidate whose position is in any way antithetical to our Torah based morality. Candidates who support abortion on demand, the homosexual agenda, liberal attitudes towards pornography of any sort – are antithetical to our way of life and it is forbidden to support or vote for them.

He added:

Our former president, Rabbi Moshe Feinstien, was most vigorous in condemning abortion on demand and the homosexual agenda and we take his legacy as our guide … It is our sincere hope that not only our own Jewish community, but our fellow citizens of all faiths, and their leaders, will draw a line in the sand and institute policies forbidding voting for anti-traditional family-values candidates. We are confident that were this policy instituted, within one or two election cycles, we would find many more pro-family candidates on every level of government.