{"id":31,"date":"2007-09-16T15:02:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T15:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/09\/mccain-im-a-baptist-really-i-a.html"},"modified":"2007-09-16T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T15:02:41","slug":"mccain-im-a-baptist-really-i-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/mccain-im-a-baptist-really-i-a.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain: I&#8217;m a Baptist. Really, I am."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just coincidence that John McCain waits till his presidential bid is ailing and till he\u2019s in evangelical-rich and electorally important South Carolina to correct the long-held impression that he\u2019s Episcopal by insisting that he\u2019s Baptist? God-o-Meter says: unlikely. Though McCain has been identified as an Episcopalian for years in the press\u2014he grew up Episcopalian and attended an Episcopal high school, according to the Associated Press\u2014he <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20070916\/D8RMP5KG0.html\">corrected an AP reporter<\/a> who asked how his Episcopal faith affects his life and campaign. \u201cIt plays a role in my life,\u201d he said. \u201cBy the way, I&#8217;m not Episcopalian. I&#8217;m Baptist.&#8221; He noted that he and his family have belonged to a Baptist church in Arizona, his home state, for 15-plus years. God-o-Meter ran the numbers and concluded that, with Baptists representing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gc.cuny.edu\/faculty\/research_briefs\/aris\/images\/aris13.jpg\">country\u2019s second largest religious tradition<\/a>\u2014and the largest evangelical one\u2014and Episcopalians accounting for less than 2-percent of the population, there are good reasons for McCain to broadcast his Baptist bona fides. Plus, the AP notes that South Carolina is predominantly Baptist. With Romney and Thompson making hard plays for evangelical support, this could be McCain\u2019s way of telling them \u201cI\u2019m one of you.\u201d Now let\u2019s see if he take it further by pointing out that he\u2019s got a stronger pro-life record than any of the frontrunners.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just coincidence that John McCain waits till his presidential bid is ailing and till he\u2019s in evangelical-rich and electorally important South Carolina to correct the long-held impression that he\u2019s Episcopal by insisting that he\u2019s Baptist? God-o-Meter says: unlikely. 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