The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

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.

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

If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant radicals want to claim that Christianity means whatever Christian today happen to believe and practice, be it pantheism, unitarianism, or sodomy. The Christian faith has suffered immeasurable harm because of the tendency of people to use the word Christian in a careless and non-historical way. Nothing in this argument would preclude liberal Protestants and Catholics from developing and practicing any religion they like.

The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

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

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