Editors’ Note: On Saturday, February 28, 2004, concerned leaders and individuals gathered in Washington, D.C. to talk about the state of the family. Family Action Council International sponsored the event slated as an Interfaith Conference on Defending Marriage and the Family: By Faith and By Reason. The conference was held in the Washington Temple Visitors’ Center. Sheri Dew joined Rabbi Daniel Lapin (President, Toward Tradition), Erika Harold (Miss America, 2003), Allan Carlson (The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society), Patrick Fagan (The Heritage Foundation), Gerald McDermott (Professor of Theology, Roanoke College) and Monte Nyman (President, Southern Virginia University) in...