Protect Marriage
Champion Life
Strengthen the Military
Limit Government
Control Spending
Defend Our Freedoms

When the issues were voted on by attendees at the conference, however, this was the lineup:

Abortion
Government spending
Repeal of health care
Protection of religious liberty
National security

A major theme of the conference was that fiscal and social conservatives must be working together. Here is an intellectual defense of this idea: http://tinyurl.com/socialeconomic. Right-wing bloggers have been touting it.  We should read it.  

Some evangelicals are concerned that getting too deep into the political swamp leads them away from God. To counter this tendency, the Family Research Council has issued a pamphlet titled "Why You Should Be Involved: A Biblical Case for Social and Political Involvement."

After listening to many hours of speeches at the Values Voter Summit, my primary impression is that we are now living in a Post-Fact Society. These folks not only live inside conservative information silos, but they accept as factual all sorts of assertions that not only lack logic, but in many cases are demonstrably false. Is there really a threat that judges in the United States plan to start enforcing Sharia Law?  Really?  I think not. More on the Post-Fact Environment later. Meanwhile check out the book True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, by Farhad Manjoo

Between now and election day look for the excellent reporting by (listed alphabetically) Peter Montgomery, Sarah Posner, Abby Scher, Adele Stan, Amanda Terkel, and David Weigel, on the Values Voter Summit and the Tea Parties. These are among the thoughtful reporters who covered the conference and have done their homework on this subject. There are other reporters who also have been writing thoughtful articles, but for progressive people of faith, the journalists listed above need our support. Some of these folks have to scramble just to pay their rent. Heads up funders.