He actually voted to be adult baptized before he was infant baptized

The latest John McCain flip-flopping story finds him distancing himself from the Episcopal church. (And wouldn't you, if you were trying to establish your social conservative bona fides right now? Which reminds me--while I disagree with McCain on any number of issues, I think it's unfair the way religious conservatives won't give him the time of day. Apparently McCain-Feingold--which was intended to restrict all sorts of "issue ads," not just the anti-abortion ones--and a years-old shot at Falwell and Robertson are enough to make people ignore the fact that the senator's actual voting record on abortion is mighty similar to Sam Brownback's.)

Anyway--McCain claimed yesterday to be Baptist, despite his Episcopal heritage and the fact that he's never joined the Baptist church at which he worships. This actually makes a certain amount of sense to me, as I suspect it does to many (though certainly not all) Protestants. I was dedicated as an infant in a Baptist church and raised and baptized in a nondenominational church with no formal membership rolls (and a relatively low view of baptism). At present I work at an Episcopal church at which I'm also deeply invested as a parishioner, but I remain a member of a Lutheran church halfway across the country--though I was never formally received into the denomination.

When people ask me about my denominational affiliation, my answer varies with the context of the question. Still, that's a bit different from an answer that varies based on what a given group of people want to hear. Backpedaling today, McCain said that "the most important thing is that I am a Christian." I don't know John, that sounds pretty broadly inclusive, pretty un-culture-war-ish, pretty Episcopalian...