David Brody of Christian Broadcasting Network has a good run-down of McCain’s flip-flop (clarification? refinement?) about gay adoption. Basically, at first he said gays shouldn’t be allowed to adopt even if the alternative was an orphange or foster care. Then he said that states could allow that if they want.
Brody says McCain had been “batting one thousand with religious conservatives” but that this fudge will hurt him some. He acknowledges that politically McCain has to appeal to moderates. In other words, Obama is not the only one trying to balance appeals to evangelicals with a yen for the suburban moderates.