Kasich Wants To Expand Voice Of America To Promote Judeo-Christian Values

Republican presidential candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich looks to the audience as he is introduced to speak at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. Kasich spoke and answered questions about ... Republican presidential candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich looks to the audience as he is introduced to speak at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. Kasich spoke and answered questions about national security and other topics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS
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Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich nixed his idea Wednesday to form a new agency to spread Judeo-Christian values across the globe, according to The Columbus Dispatch, instead saying that he would expand the existing government broadcast agency, Voice of America to serve the purpose.

Kasich told NBC Tuesday (during a larger discussion on his plan to combat the Islamic State) that he wanted to create a new government agency intended to spread Western values and teach what it means “to be a part of a Christian-Judeo society.”

The agency would take its teachings to places such as China, Russia, and the Middle East, Kasich told NBC Tuesday, after first suggesting the agency during an event at the National Press Club.

But, a day after he pitched it, the GOP hopeful changed his mind at a campaign event at a Christian university in Virginia Beach, the Dispatch reported.

Kasich reportedly said at the university that he doesn’t think “you need a new agency. It’s really breathing life into something that’s kind of become dormant.”

Kasich later added that, “You don’t hear much about the Voice of America anymore.”

“I think it’s entirely reasonable for us to begin to tell the world who we are, what we believe, because it’s really all about hope, science, education, progress and the future,” he said at the university, according to the Dispatch.

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  1. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    Gov. Kasich:

    What part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, . . ." do you not understand? I think the First Amendment trumps your idea.

  2. “I think it’s entirely reasonable for us to begin to tell the world who we are, what we believe, because it’s really all about hope, science, education, progress and the future,” he said at the university, according to the Dispatch.

    In reply, the other Republican candidates said “What does hope, science, education, progress and the future have to do with us?”

  3. That “Christian” part better only be Roman Catholicism, and deal-breaker if you’re including Reform Jews in the latter!

  4. Pathetic little Panderbear.

  5. If the world knew who we really are they would hate us more.

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