ANAHEIM, Calif. – With millions of religious Americans pivotal in returning President Bush to the White House, Christian broadcasters gathered for their annual convention this week are loudly claiming credit for being the high-tech shepherds to that politically potent flock.

“There’s a sense of victory. We’re all geared up,” said an owner of six Christian radio stations in the Midwest, Raymond Logan of Rochester, Minn. “This group is the ones who’ve done the job.”

For many of the nearly 6,000 attendees at the National Religious Broadcasters conference, Mr. Bush’s triumph also amounted to a national vote of support for their worldview.

“The nation spoke by the re-election of Bush,” said an advertising executive for a broadcast ministry in Florida, Julie Harris. “We’re definitely in an upswing because the president is a believer. It’s just a wellspring of strength for what we do.”

In a measure of the group’s growing clout, two of the five members of the Federal Communications Commission traveled across the country for a panel discussion yesterday on the public policy issues facing the industry.

One FCC commissioner, Kevin Martin, tried to calm fears among the broadcasters that the commission might re-impose a now-defunct rule, the fairness doctrine, which required radio and television outlets to air diverse viewpoints when discussing controversial public issues.

“I don’t think we need to have a revival of the fairness doctrine. I think it would hamper speech more than it would help,” Mr. Martin said to applause from the crowd. “The elimination of the fairness doctrine is what has contributed to the ability of broadcasters to provide a lot of the niche broadcasting that’s out there today.”

Democrats such as Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York have proposed bringing back the doctrine. However, Mr. Martin, a Republican appointed by Mr. Bush, said he sees little chance it will happen.

Another FCC commissioner, Michael Copps, told the devout audience about the commission’s recent efforts to combat sexually explicit content on the airwaves. He faulted the regulatory body for failing to confront the issue until Janet Jackson’s breast-baring incident at last year’s Super Bowl.

“We have been every bit as complicit as any broadcasting company who is pushing the edge of that envelope,” said Mr. Copps, a Democrat also appointed by Mr. Bush. Mr. Copps said the FCC’s fines against outlets that broadcast indecent material must be dramatically increased.

“Our fines are still, I think, virtually meaningless. A million, a million and a half for a big corporate conglomerate may sound like a lot of money, but that’s like a 30-second ad on the Super Bowl,” he said.

At the same discussion, a leading advocate for tougher enforcement of anti-indecency rules argued that deregulation has led to more explicit content on TV and radio. “My conservative friends are incorrect, I believe, when they say we ought to allow the market to work its magic,” said Brent Bozell, a founder of the Parents Television Council. “There is no such thing as market competition when you’re up against Viacom.”

The convention exhibition hall featured causes that run the conservative gamut, from abortion to right-to-work. To the surprise of some, one of the largest displays on the convention floor promoted Israeli services and products. On Sunday, the Israeli Tourism Ministry sponsored a breakfast for the conventioneers.

Israeli tour operators said evangelical Christians have become a mainstay of their business.

“They come to Israel no matter if it’s sunny, raining, bomb, no bombs – they come,” said one tour guide, Samuel Smadja. A mangled bus that was blown up in Israel last year by a suicide bomber was on display at one end of the convention hall.

The Israeli consul general in Los Angeles, Ehud Danoch, said the backing the country receives from devout American Christians goes beyond the financial benefits that come from tourism.

“I don’t think we can ignore 50 or 60 million who support the state of Israel,” said Mr. Danoch, who spoke to the broadcasters’ group on Sunday. “I don’t think Israel is in a situation where you can say no to friends.”

Still, some of the conventioneers’ talk about the Holy Land could be disconcerting to Israelis. In and around the convention, many evangelicals spoke earnestly and with urgency about the Middle East being bathed in fire as the “end times” arrive.

Mr. Danoch said he doesn’t get caught up in such debates. “The end of time, it’s not something we’re looking at,” he said.

While the evangelical broadcasters were nearly unanimous in their support for Mr. Bush, they have not yet galvanized in the same way around a broader political agenda. However, many of the activists cited gay marriage as an area where they are prepared to do battle.

Some broadcasters are also concerned that their opposition to homosexuality could be banned from the airwaves or even criminalized as “hate speech.” The association’s board passed a resolution decrying such a prospect.

“We believe that’s a significant threat to the free exercise of religion,” said the president of the National Religious Broadcasters, Frank Wright. He said one of the “ominous clouds on the horizon” involved a case in Sweden where a pastor was sentence to three months in jail for denouncing homosexuality. The conviction was later reversed.

While many conventioneers called on the FCC to do more to control indecent broadcasts, some chafed at what they see as overregulation by the government. They griped about a proposal that stations record every word and image transmitted in case a complaint is filed. They said the cost of installing such equipment would be too onerous for small radio stations.

One religious broadcaster at the conference, Keith Black of Washington, said he would prefer less discussion of political issues at such events. “Politics isn’t the answer. It’s Christ that’s the answer,” Mr. Black said.