President Bush promoted an evangelizer of Jews to a presidential commission. Bush appointed the Rev. Lon Solomon this week to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Solomon has said his primary reason for founding the huge McClean Bible Church this year is to convert Washington-area Jews.
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