So check out his blog and read the post.  Both are good stuff and worth your time.

I’m starting this feature with John McCain mainly because he has broken ahead of the pack as the front runner for the Republicans while the Democrats are still mired in a neck and neck race that might not be resolved until they get to the convention in Denver later this year.

So where does McCain stand on religious issues?  Can we look forward to a more secular society under a McCain presidency, or will it be more of the same religiously informed bad decision making that we’ve had to endure under the Bush presidency?  He went through his 2000 campaign and the start of the current campaign with a more centrist political stance, but in recent months he’s been courting the religious right in an effort to get a piece of that voting block that put George W. in the White House for two terms, and as a result he’s said some alarming things concerning religion and politics.

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