They are lighter now, but persist. This from Clevelend Plain Dealer:
The National Right to Life Committee backed Fred Thompson, even though it disagreed with the former Tennessee senator on campaign finance reform and the Terri Schiavo case.
No one knows how much weight any of these endorsements - or endorsements in general - will carry with caucus and primary voters. It's notable that the candidate most faithful to the religious conservative agenda, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, has no big-name backers. And yet the one-time Baptist preacher seems to be moving up in Iowa, where evangelicals may constitute 40 percent or more of the Republicans who turn out for the Jan. 3 caucuses.
Editorial: Even the GOP's prodigal sons win blessings from an atomized religious right
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