{"id":190,"date":"2007-12-19T12:18:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T12:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/12\/another-evanglical-discusses-h.html"},"modified":"2007-12-19T12:18:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T12:18:31","slug":"another-evanglical-discusses-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/12\/another-evanglical-discusses-h.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Evanglical Discusses his pro-Romney Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sekulow.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/sekulow.jpg\" width=\"126\" \/>A couple days after reporting that prominent evangelical publicist Mark DeMoss <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/12\/romney-taps-top-evangelical-fo.html\">has taped radio spots for Mitt Romney<\/a> for broadcast on Christian radio, another evangelical Romney booster\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclj.org\/About\/Default.aspx?Section=11\">Supreme Court lawyer Jay Sekulow<\/a>\u2014tells God-o-Meter he has also recently taped radio ads for the candidate.<br \/>\nSekulow says the two ads he taped roughly a week ago focus on the probability of two or three Supreme Court vacancies under the next president. Rather than mention Mike Huckabee, Romney\u2019s chief rival for evangelical caucus goers in Iowa, Sekulow says one of his ads invokes the names of Democratic frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, with Sekulow asking \u201cWho do you want making the next Supreme Court appointments?\u201d<br \/>\nLike DeMoss, Sekulow says his ads attempt to make a practical case that a candidate\u2019s religious faith and stance on hot button social issues should not be the sole considerations for evangelical voters. That fits into Romney&#8217;s larger strategy to combat Huckabee&#8217;s rise among conservative Christian voters, which is making the case that two candidates have identical stances on social issues like abortion rights and gay marriage but that Romney is more conservative on other issues, like immigration and taxes. &#8220;Social conservative issues are important, but they\u2019re not the only issues,\u201d Sekulow says. \u201cWe have to focus on economic conservatives and defense conservatives.\u201d<br \/>\nThough DeMoss says his ads were taped for broadcast in the days leading up to the Iowa caucuses, the Romney campaign has declined to say on if and when they will run. A Romney advisor says the ads would be the first to feature prominent evangelicals for Romney. \u201cLike any good campaign we want to have lots of options and we are readying all the tools in the tool chest,\u201d the advisor says. \u201cIt is good to have stuff in the can and ready to use at a moment&#8217;s notice.\u201d<br \/>\nRomney has featured other ads on Christian radio that don\u2019t feature evangelical leaders, including one outlining Gov Romney\u2019s opposition to same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days after reporting that prominent evangelical publicist Mark DeMoss has taped radio spots for Mitt Romney for broadcast on Christian radio, another evangelical Romney booster\u2014Supreme Court lawyer Jay Sekulow\u2014tells God-o-Meter he has also recently taped radio ads for the candidate. 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