Evangelical conservative leader James Dobson, who has said he would not vote for McCain in November, told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday he saw no evidence the Arizona senator was truly catering to conservatives.
”I have seen no evidence that Senator McCain is successfully unifying the Republican Party or drawing conservatives to his fold. To the contrary, he seems intent on driving them away,” Dobson, founder and chairman of the influential conservative advocacy group Focus on the Family, said in a statement published in The Wall Street Journal.
In the Journal piece, Dobson highlighted some issues that he and other religious conservatives have with McCain:
"To my knowledge, he has not reached out to pro-family leaders or changed any of the positions that have troubled them. He still believes, for example, that federal money should be allocated for laboratory experiments with tiny human embryos, after which they would be killed when they are no longer useful.
"He continues to favor allowing each state to create its own definition of marriage, potentially giving the nation 50 different legal interpretations. It would create chaos within families."
Dobson also had a problem with McCain’s speech in March to the World Affairs Council on Foreign Policy,-- where he laid out his support for government action on climate change and lambasted the U.S. military for its use of torture.
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