Litigator with a cause

| Bob Jones

Ken Connor seems to work in reverse. As an attorney in Florida, he helped put eldercare issues on the national political map. Now, as the new president of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., he's trying to sell the issue to a constituency that might have been seen as a natural starting point: evangelical Christians.

"It's about reaching out with a cup of cold water, doing what Christ insisted was 'true religion,'" he explained from his new office at the edge of Washington's bustling Chinatown neighborhood. "Just because a person costs more to maintain than they are producing, doesn't mean that they have a negative net worth. I think it's a Darwinian mindset that as your health and mental capacity diminish, so does your dignity or your worth. We've got to change that mindset."