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In Good Faith: John McCain's “New Republican Majority” Address and the Problem of Religion and Politics

This essay explores the process by which John McCain's “New Republican Majority” address negotiated competing demands in U.S. political culture surrounding religion and politics by incorporating personal religious testimony within an address that symbolically preserved the fundamentally nonreligious character of the political process. It argues that McCain constructed an identity for the Republican Party as a secular political movement, and that he dissociated the Christian Right from that secular movement. From that position, he then invited conservative Christians to “join” the movement on the basis of common political rather than religious values. Finally, he offered himself as a model of the Christian in politics, who operated out of deep faith but would not use religion to structure public policy.