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The Rev Rick Warren, pastor at the Saddleback megachurch in California's Orange County and author of The Purpose Driven Life, received maximum publicity on the eve of his church's candidate forum. Both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain will sit down with Warren, separately for an hour each, to discuss political issues of interest to evangelical Christian voters. The non-partisan Warren, as CBS' Ben Tracy put it, "is staying neutral but not on the sidelines." ABC's Jake Tapper (embargoed link) noted that Obama is "more comfortable talking about religion" than McCain even though his "liberal views on abortion and other issues" make it difficult for him to win over such voters. When McCain had suggested that he might pick a pro-choicer such as Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania as his running mate, noted CBS' Bob Schieffer (no link), religious conservatives "just went nuts." Yet NBC's Andrea Mitchell quoted Warren's insistence that times are changing: "many younger evangelicals define social issues broadly to include global warming, human rights and poverty--not just abortion."
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