Gary Bauer defended John McCain when I spoke with him earlier this week, even though there were several more religious outreach events at the Democratic National Convention last week than here in St. Paul. Bauer served as head of Family Research Council before he ran for president in 2000.

There doesn't seem to be as many scheduled events for religious voters here as in Denver. Why is that?

Clearly the Obama campaign is making a play for the religious vote. But I think they will actually end up with less of that vote than Sen. Kerrry and Al Gore got, for this reason: the positions they're taking are so out of step with faith-based voters that I think they're doomed on making any progress here. Christian voters are not hiring a pastor; they're picking a president.

He is so far, so extremely pro-abortion that it's almost hard to comprehend. On marriage he opposes almost every idea on how to safeguard marriage as the union of one man and one woman. But worse than that, he has cited the Sermon ...

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