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Andrew Sullivan thinks evangelical Protestant are bad news, because they say their faith informs their political choices. (If asked, they'd probably say their faith informs their business decisions and their choice of music.) But evangelicals don't have an apparatus like this, they don't equate marriage with procreation (although they support the raising of children within traditional families--a subtle, but important, distinction), their religious traditions grew up assuming that their churches would have no direct secular power, and they have essentially no presence in the intellectual organs that influence the political debates. Andrew's problems are not primarily with evangelical Protestants.

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