{"id":6,"date":"2007-10-19T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2007\/10\/another-christian-rightist-mee.html"},"modified":"2007-10-19T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T14:18:58","slug":"another-christian-rightist-mee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2007\/10\/another-christian-rightist-mee.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Christian Rightist Meets Dr. Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking the halls at the Washington <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frcaction.org\/index.cfm?c=WASH_BRIEFING\">Values Voter Summit<\/a>, I ran into Rev. Patrick Mahoney, a Washington-based Christian Right activist, who revealed that he had sat down with DNC chair Howard Dean last week. Mahoney, a longtime DC fixture whose advocacy and gift for offering priceless quotes often <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0308\/26\/lol.07.html\">lands him in the news<\/a>, says Dean is the first DNC chair he&#8217;s ever sat down with and that he found him &#8220;quite warm, quite nice.&#8221; This comes a few weeks after reports circulated that Dean had met with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20920353\/site\/newsweek\/\">Southern Baptist Convention public policy chief Richard Land<\/a>, which marked Land&#8217;s first meeting with a DNC chair.<br \/>\nNoting that he has not met with the RNC anytime recent in memory&#8211;and that he didn&#8217;t think the RNC would grant a request to do so&#8211;Mahoney called Dean &#8220;100 percent committed to having a dialogue. Is that because of politics or because he honestly believes the political tone has gotten too harsh? It&#8217;s probably 50-50.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I feel the Republican Party sometimes takes the faith and values community for granted,&#8221; Mahoney added.<br \/>\nWould anyone have guessed that the liberal, secular Dean would become the first DNC chair to meet face-to-face with the leading lights of evangelical politics? I&#8217;m gonna keep an ear open for disclosures of more Dean-Christian Right powwows. I think I just saw Dr. James Dobson walk by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking the halls at the Washington Values Voter Summit, I ran into Rev. Patrick Mahoney, a Washington-based Christian Right activist, who revealed that he had sat down with DNC chair Howard Dean last week. 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