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John McCain’s rejection of John Hagee’s endorsement today is the starkest example yet of McCain’s ham handed approach to dealing with the Christian Right and with handling religious matters generally. It’s a striking contrast to era of George W. Bush, whose political rise was largely a result of having mastered Christian Right and evangelical outreach,…

This story is getting legs. In March, Mother Jones magazine dug up some anti-Muslim rants of Rev. Rod Parsley, an Ohio-based evangelical minister and rising Christian Right star who campaigned with John McCain at a time when Mike Huckabee was still working hard for evangelical votes. Though McCain and Parsley don’t appear to have much…

John McCain’s meeting with potential vice presidential runnng mates Mitt Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal this weekend at his Arizona ranch suggests McCain is sensitive to the Christian Right’s ongoing misgivings about his presumptive nomination and wants to put the movement at ease. But McCain’s invititation to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to join the…

That’s according to Bob Novak: An invitation for Sen. John McCain to meet with evangelical leader James Dobson at his Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., so far has been rebuffed by the McCain campaign. God-o-Meter doesn’t know whether to be more surprised by word of Dobson’s invitation to McCain–the Focus on…
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