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McCain’s New Ad: God’s Children

Christianity Today July 11, 2008

No, the ad’s not about “values” issues. It’s about immigration. In it, John McCain calls all immigrants–legal and illegal–”God’s children.” Is this Sam Brownback’s hand at work? Brownback has for years talked about every person–including the unborn–as being a “sacred, unique child of a living God.” McCain, for his part, has been a lot less prone to talk that way. Could Brownback be playing a stepped up role after all the criticism McCain received for his anemic religious outreach?

This article is cross-posted from Beliefnet’s God-o-Meter.

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