This posted started as a kind of run-on thought to the previous post, so it's probably a good idea to scroll down and read the next post, then come up to this one.

I posited in the previous post that animosity towards "Evangelical Christians" in academia was because that term is believed to be synonymous with "Republican."

It's a simple fact that people most likely to describe themselves as "Evangelicals" most often vote for the GOP. Evangelicals aren't the only ones you can play this game with. Jews most likely vote Democrat (though I can't for the life of me figure out why). Unitarian-Universalists probably vote Democrat. Atheists: Democrat.

Evangelical Christians have been driven largely by social issues to the Republican Party ever since the Democrat Party slowly purged its ranks of abortion foes -- or at least abortion foes who act like abortion foes.

I don't think it's good for American politics -- or Christianity for that matter -- that Evangelical Christians identify with a single political party. However, the change that needs to occur is for a lessening of hostility towards pro-lifers and cultural conservatives in the Democrat Party. You can probably count on one hand the number of truly pro-life Democrats in Congress. (By truly pro-life I'm talking about the ones who vote that way when it matters and who support legislation like the Hyde Amendment, not those who answer the surveys the "right" way and then vote the opposite when they get to Congress. For example, Republican Rep. Brian Bilbray.)

That one thing would create the largest sea change in the American political system. And I don't think that will occur until Roe v. Wade is overturned. Until the American body politic can have a real, substantive debate on what the limits on abortion should be, the pro-choicers will be wedded to the Democrats; the pro-lifers to the Republicans.