One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.

Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.

The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

Even though most people who reject Christianity treat it as a refuge for enemies of reason, the truth is that there may be no worldview in the history of the human race that has a higher regard for the laws of logic.

Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.