Obama: Dems Must Engage Evangelicals

National Journal's "On Call" blog reports:

Speaking to a conventional of religious liberals today, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) plans to say that "the majority of great reformers" in history used "religious language to argue for their cause."

And when Dems fail to appeal to evangelicals, they cede the field. Says Obama: "In other words, if we don't reach out to evangelical Christians and other religious Americans and tell them what we stand for, Jerry Falwell's and Pat Robertson's will continue to hold sway."