Obama Transition Team in Touch with Family Research Council

By GottaLaff

Tony Perkins

Awhile back I posted this about Obama's reaching out to faith groups. Now we can add this follow-up:

When I wrote this week about the Obama transition team's frequent outreach to religious groups in the process of its policy planning and agency review, I noted that politically conservative faith-based outfits like the Family Research Council and the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention hadn't been invited to powwows with president-elect Obama [...]

It turns out that the Obama team has been in touch with the Family Research Council, one of the most powerful conservative Christian advocacy groups in Washington. [...]

FRC spokesperson J.P. Duffy confirms that the Obama team placed the call [to Tony Perkins] but that he was unaware of it when he told me earlier in the week that FRC hadn't been contacted by the president-elect's office. [...]

I'd reported earlier that the Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land received a phone call from Obama religious affairs director Joshua DuBois, even though Land and his deputies haven't been invited to sit down with the Obama team.

P.E. Obama is nothing if not inclusive.