Senator McCain and Governor Palin should attend the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit this upcoming weekend. The event has featured many well respected speakers in the past including “Sean Hannity, Tony Snow, Dr. Bill Bennett, Newt Gingrich, Governors Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, Senators Sam Brownback, Fred Thompson and Rick Santorum, Dr. Richard Land, Judges Charles Pickering and Robert Bork, and Ben Stein.”

Family Research Council does not condone lying or violating the tax laws, but it does support the preservation of traditional marriage. The Summit gives thousands of concerned Christians a chance to hear from prominent leaders, and hopefully the candidates themselves, about moral and social policy issues that will shape the November election and our nation’s future.

Senators Obama and Biden should also attend the event, especially since their campaign has tried to appeal to evangelical Christian voters. This would give Sen. Obama a chance to explain to values voters his well-publicized statement made to San Francisco donors that small-town Americans “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”