Warren, go to any pro-family organization’s website and see what stuff you can come up with. I recommend the Family Research Council’s book “Getting It Straight: What the Research Shows about Homosexuality.” 🙂

” Evangelicals often appeal to the derivation of their name from the Greek New Testament word for the ‘gospel’ or ‘good news’ of Jesus Christ. On their own account, they are ‘gospel people’, committed to simple New Testament Christianity and the central tenets of apostolic faith, rather than to later ecclesiastical accretions.”

Too bad this word has come to describe only right-wing, Bible-thumping, self-righteous, fear-mongering, Republicans who absolutely know what each passge of Scripture means (even though they only obey the Biblical laws that suit them) — and the rest of us are just “radical liberals” — and probably not “real” Evangelical Christians like them anyway..

I don’t see anything wrong with defining it each time its used – being more specific probably WOULD be helpful – If it is a conservative Evangelical group or Leader (such as Focus on the Family), call it such – If its a Catholic group or leader – call it such – If its a group of conservative Christians of different churches (AFA, CWA, Exodus Int’l ), call it such. The same rules would apply if it involves liberal Evangelicals.

The word “Evangelicals” keeps popping up lately as the label for those ‘bad Christians’. I think this needs to be curbed immediately. There are many non-Evangelical Christians who sport the rigidity being described (i.e. traditional Catholics) and, conversely, there are many Evangelicals who don’t subscribe to it. Truthful communication would be better served if that ill-fitting term either weren’t used at all or would be defined by the user each time its used. (Yeah, kinda like ex-gays and ‘change’.) 🙂