I was invited by former Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway), president and founder of the National Association of Christian Legislators, to speak about antisemitism at the NACL's conference in Branson, Mo., last week. My talk coincided with a haunting milestone at Yad Vashem, the world holocaust center in Jerusalem: 5 million of the 6 million Jews who the Nazis murdered in the Holocaust have now been identified. The Nazis sought not only to kill the Jews, but to erase every trace of our existence.

I've known Rapert for years and worked with him on legislation and oversight concerning the Freedom of Information Act and higher education, among other topics, when he was in office. You might also remember Rapert as the recent member of Arkansas' library board who took the apparently c

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