As part of the 2013 Value Voter Summit, founder and former president of the Heritage Foundation Ed Feulner will be honored with a “Vision & Leadership Award.”
The announcement comes as Feulner’s Heritage is currently working vigorously to salvage its name and reputation after releasing a widely discredited report on immigration – an update to a 2007 report that Heritage released under Feulner’s leadership.
The Value Voter Summit is primarily sponsored by FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of Family Research Council (FRC) – a organization whose leaders are noted anti-LGBT and anti-Muslim bigots. FRC’s President, Tony Perkins described LGBT people as “ individuals that are engaged in activity, behavior, and an agenda that will destroy them and our nation.” Perkins colleague, FRC Executive Vice President William G. “Jerry” Boykin, has said Islam “should not be protected under the First Amendment” and served as leader of a conspiracy theorist group that wrote “Shariah: The Threat to America” as a project for Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy.
The 2013 Value Voter Summit will be held in Washington, DC, October 11-13.