This evening, Sen. McCain has also dumped Ohio's Hot Rod Parsley.

Dan Gilgoff, whose God-o-meter puts McCain one spot away from a secularist, helps to explain some of these pastor problems.

For McCain, the most glaring example of his unwillingness to treat religious outreach seriously is that his campaign still lacks a fulltime religious outreach director. Bush had a handful of such strategists aboard his 2000 and 2004 campaigns, including such talented figures as former Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed. Both Obama and Clinton hired fulltime religious outreach directors as soon as they launched their campaigns early last year, and have filled out their faith-based teams with more personnel since then.

It appears the the same person vetting McCain's lobbyist advisers may also be moonlighting in religious outreach.