McCain and the Christian Right

This weekend, John McCain will be at his ranch, meeting with three possible vice presidential nominees: Governors Charlie Crist of Florida and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. McCain has repeatedly called for winning "the hearts and minds of the Islamic world," but a minister he recruited for his campaign says Islam is "anti-Christian," and calls the prophet Mohammed "the mouthpiece of a conspiracy of spiritual evil." That's according to ABC's Good Morning America, reporting on Pastor Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, Ohio. Dan Gilgoff is politics editor at Beliefnet.com.