Evangelicals Split From The Right?
For the past decade, evangelical Christians, disgusted with the moral morass they saw in Washington, DC, have voted solidly for the Republican Party. So long as the issues considered by these Christians were narrowly defined as the 3-Gs, Gays, Guns, and God, evangelical Christians were easily roped into voting a straight Republican ticket.
Recently, however, a split has developed between the far right and the more-moderate factions within the evangelical community over global warming in particular. But that tentative split on environmental policy is just the first crack in a logjam of issues that have long divided America, such as the teaching of evolution in our schools (the “more-moderate” evangelicals have no issue with that, a position identical with that of the Roman Catholic Church) and the place of science education within our hierarchy of knowledge (the radical right wing decries reliance upon “science” as “just another opinion” not entitled to any real respect as it is clearly “anti-God”).
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