LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY larathia)

Opinion piece: Christian Nationalism

...mostly because I don't think it's been posted here yet?

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY multiclassgeek)

I saw this mentioned in a UK paper, but the only online links I could find were from US sources

LYNCHBURG, Va. -- When he ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, Senator John McCain denounced religious right leader Jerry Falwell as an "evil" force whose message of "intolerance" hurt the GOP and America.
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Today, McCain, who is all but officially on the presidential campaign trail, will deliver the commencement address at Falwell's evangelical Christian college. Though he's simply speaking to Liberty University graduates and their parents, the Arizona Republican's visit to the Lynchburg, Va., college is nonetheless freighted with broader political symbolism.

By accepting the invitation and showing newfound respect for Falwell, political analysts say, McCain is courting religious right voters with the goal of accomplishing in 2008 what he couldn't in 2000: win the Republican nomination for president. McCain, they say, apparently has calculated that improving his relations with one of the Republicans' core constituencies is worth the risk of damaging his contrarian image, which made him popular among independents.

Full article here - http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/05/13/analysts_say_mccain_wooing_religious_right/

Other links:

http://uspolitics.about.com/b/a/207679.htm

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0406/p01s01-uspo.html

Just when you were beginning to hope the Republicans might be turning a corner, as well... But then, we shouldn't really be surprised, should we?