THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE ARIZONA SENATOR;

February 29, 2000

McCAIN DENOUNCES POLITICAL TACTICS OF CHRISTIAN RIGHT
By DAVID BARSTOW

Taking his presidential campaign to a stronghold of Christian conservatism, Senator John McCain of Arizona delivered a harsh attack today on the ‘’self-appointed leaders” of the religious right, depicting them as intolerant empire builders who ”have turned good causes into businesses” while trying to exclude all but ”card-carrying Republicans” from the party.

Mr. McCain singled out for criticism two of the Christian right’s best-known leaders, Pat Robertson, the f