"Would it be wrong if we prayed for rain?"

The religious right has thrown aside any notion of supporting John McCain, presumptively since many pundits have been adamantly opposed to his candidacy from the start. Instead of promoting the republican candidate, conservative religious think tanks like James Dobson's Focus on the Family are "humorously" telling their followers to pray for "rain of Biblical proportions" during Barack Obama's outdoor acceptance speech at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Why should we pray for rain, you might ask? Well, you probably don't have to since the video cites the only two family values that the religious right promotes: abortion and gay marriage. Those are the only ones that matter, not America's evaporating middle class or our endless "liberation" of a middle-eastern country that's taken thousands of lives. Man, if only Charlton Heston were still with us to reprise one of his famous Biblical roles of old and stir up a miracle on par with the parting of Red Sea for conservatives and the NRA. Without him, I'm tempted to think it might not work.