Dean is preaching this mantra everywhere he goes now. Of course when they talk values, they never offer anything but unconditional surrender to religious conservatives on social and cultural issues. Its basically a matter of the Dems promising more by way of govt services just as long as socially conservative/economially less-conservative voters accept judicial rule.
You'll never hear Dean say that perhaps it isn't right for the Sup Court to impose a northeast, elitist, leftwing policy on the entire nation.
And as the article correctly points out, it is hard to reconcile the Dems being 'Christian-friendly' when their base is made up of the most virulently anti-Christian groups like the ACLU and People for the (socialist) American Way.
But the GOP/Right should not take these efforts lightly. There are people who only vote GOP because of social issues, and if the Dems can fool enough people then they may be able to carry some Southern states. They've managed to do so for Senate with people like Landrieu and Lincoln.
Can we say "Pandering". Christian values mean spreading the Gospel, not alienating people. As long as the democratic party continues to deliberately alienate Republicans, they won't be able to win over their votes. Reagan won democrats over to his side and won by a landslide. I guess Howard Dean wants to alienate them and lose by landslides