Ethics and Public Policy Center

[[File:Ethics and Public Policy Center Logo.jpg|thumb|right|165px|EPPC logo]]
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The '''Ethics and Public Policy Center''' (EPPC) is a [[right-wing]] [[think tank]] that was founded in 1976 by {{wpl|Ernest W. Lefever}} {{lived|1919|2009}}, and claims to be "dedicated to applying the [[Judeo-Christian]] moral tradition to critical issues of public policy."<ref name=about>[https://eppc.org/about/ About EPPC] Ethics and Public Policy Center</ref> 

EPPC's stated interests are:<ref name=about/>
{{cquote|From the [[Cold War]] to the [[war on terror]]ism, from disputes over the role of religion in public life to [[Family values|battles over the nature of the family]], EPPC and its scholars have consistently sought to defend and promote our nation's founding principles—respect for the inherent dignity of the human person, individual [[freedom]] and responsibility, justice, the [[rule of law]], and [[limited government]].}}

==Ernest W. Lefever==
Lefever was nominated by [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1981 to be the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. The nomination was opposed by {{wpl|Jacobo Timmerman||,}} a prominent [[human rights]] activist who had been [[torture]]d by the [[Argentina|Argentinian]] military [[junta]].<ref>[http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ernest-lefever31-2009jul31-story.html Ernest W. Lefever dies at 89; founder of conservative public policy organization] by Adam Bernstein (Jul 31, 2009 | 12:00 AM) ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> Two of Lefever's own brothers opposed his nomination, claiming that Ernest Lefever supported {{wpl|William Shockley|William Shockley's}} [[racialist]] views.<ref name=ap>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dEMRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2OkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6879%2C452084 Brothers Claim Lefever Thinks Blacks Inferior] (June 4, 1981) ''AP''.</ref> One of Lefever's brothers quoted Ernest as saying that "blacks were genetically inferior".<ref name=ap/>

==Edward Whelan==
Edward Whelan {{lived|1960}} is the current president. In 2018 during the period of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing for [[Supreme Court of the United States]], Kavanaugh was accused of sexually attacking a 15-year old girl when he was a 17-year old. The victim, {{wpl|Christine Blasey Ford}} (now a psychologist and statistics professor), remembered details of the incident and also named a witness. Whelan cooked up a theory that a different boy from Kavanaugh's school committed the attack and went so far as to name him without providing any evidence whatsoever, something that could be considered defamation.<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/ed-whelan-judge-kavanaughs-defender-definitely-just-committed-defamation Ed Whelan, Judge Kavanaugh’s Defender, Just Committed Defamation] by Jay Michaelson (09.21.18 6:08 AM ET) ''The Daily Beast''.</ref> Never mind the [[Ten Commandments|Commandment]], "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." A [[PR]] firm, CRC Public Relations, apparently helped Whelan cook up this mess.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/21/ed-whelan-kavanaugh-tweets-pr-firm-836405  PR firm helped Whelan stoke half-baked Kavanaugh alibi: CRC Public Relations, a powerhouse conservative firm, guided Ed Whelan on a bad Twitter adventure.] by Eliana Johnson (09/21/2018 04:47 PM EDT; Updated 09/22/2018 10:41 AM EDT) ''Politico''.</ref>

==Rick Santorum==
[[Rick Santorum]] received [[wingnut welfare]] as a Senior Fellow of EPPC, and directed the center's "Program to Promote and Protect America's Freedom" from to 2007 to 2011.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130122162506/https://eppc.org/scholars/scholarID.88/scholar.asp Rick Santorum] Ethics and Public Policy Center (archived from January 22, 2012).</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110314145021/http://www.eppc.org/programs/enemies/programID.42/default.asp Program to Promote and Protect America's Freedom] Ethics and Public Policy Center (archived from March 14, 2011).</ref>

==Mona Charen==
In 2018, Senior Fellow Mona Charen, an anti-[[Donald Trump|Trump]] conservative, spoke at the American Conservative Union's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and was unusually critical of conservatives, stating:<ref name=chotiner>[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/mona-charen-on-why-she-spoke-out-and-got-booed-at-cpac.html Booed at CPAC: Conservative Mona Charen on why she spoke out about her own side’s hypocrisy at a conference of her peers.] by Isaac Chotiner (Feb 25, 2018 • 7:50 PM) ''Slate''.</ref>
{{cquote|I am disappointed in people on our side for being [[hypocrite]]s about sexual harassers and abusers of women, who are in our party, who are sitting in the White House, who brag about their extramarital affairs, who brag about mistreating women—and because he happens to have an '[[Republican Party|R]]' next to his name we look the other way.}}
Charen also criticized CPAC for inviting the niece of [[Marine Le Pen]].<ref name=chotiner/>

==Fellows and scholars==
As of 2018, their fellows and scholars include:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180927035610/https://eppc.org/authors-scholars/ Fellows & Scholars] Ethics and Public Policy Center (archived from September 27, 2017).</ref>
{{collist|3|
*Edward Whelan, president
*Yuval Levin, vice president
*Erika Bachiochi
*James Bowman

*Mona Charen
*Eric Cohen
*Bruce Cole {{lived|1938|2018}}
*Michael Cromartie {{lived|1950|2017}}
*Mary FioRito
*Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
*Josh Good
*Mary Hasson
*Stanley Kurtz
*Ian Lindquist
*Lance Morrow
*John Mueller
*Henry Olsen
*Herbert Schlossberg
*[[Roger Scruton]]
*Luma Simms
*Carter Snead
*Algis Valiunas
*Peter Wehner
*George Weigel
*Stephen P. White
}}

==External links==
*[https://eppc.org/ Ethics and Public Policy Center]

==References==
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