This week on the FundamentaList, Sarah Posner confronts John McCain's ties to neoconservatism via his relationship with pastor John Hagee:
Rest assured McCain will not reject and repudiate the whole Hagee package. Hagee has too big a following and is too connected with the neoconservative foreign policy brain trust for McCain to risk alienating. The neoconservative elites -- who rely on evangelical grassroots support -- are now, as Gregory Levey reported last week in Salon, engaged in a full throttle lobbying and PR campaign to undermine the assessment of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Iran abandoned its project to assemble a nuclear weapon in 2003.
Also, an examination of Obama's failure to attract the "evangelical center:"
With the movement of evangelicals away from the Republican Party in the news so much lately, I asked the panel whether they thought Barack Obama's statement that the Sermon on the Mount supported his position on same-sex unions would appeal to evangelical centrists. "Most evangelicals still think that God's will for sexuality is between a man and a woman in lifelong marriage," replied Rev. Ron Sider, president of Evangelicals for Social Action, after no one else on the panel leapt to address the question. "I doubt that many evangelicals think the Sermon on the Mount really is very relevant to the question of whether to support civil unions."
Read the rest here.
--The Editors
