[Frank T]

"The problem with that is that libertarianism generally doesn't play well with evangelicals."

Really? Aren't evangelical Christians most predominant in America, which is based in part in protecting individual freedom of religion? They don't do too well, as a movement, in more statist countries.

The two are tied together. It's traditionalist communitarianism that doesn't play well with libertarian ideas.

[JamesP81]

Really? Aren't evangelical Christians most predominant in America, which is based in part in protecting individual freedom of religion? They don't do too well, as a movement, in more statist countries.

That's all very true. What doesn't jive well with Evangelicals is Libertarian insistence that law not be based on morality (can't legislate morality is the meme you most often hear). Libertarians want to legalize drugs as well, and most evangelicals are dead set against this idea. A great number of libertarians also favor legalizing gay marriage which evangelicals are also against. Discounting Libertarians for Life (which is a rather small group within the party), libertarians also think that abortion law as it is should not be changed, and this really doesn't play well with Evangelicals. Libertarians also believe that the Founders did not create our country based on Judeo-Christian values, which simply is not true. Evangelicals also don't care for this.

In short, evangelicals and libertarians probably more-or-less agree on foreign policy, but domestic/social policy they're like night and day. Furthermore, the pro-capitalist ideas of the right are preferred by most evangelical christians to the somewhat more regulated ideas coming from the libertarian party.

Speaking as an evangelical Christian, there's just not enough to like where libertarians are concerned for me to vote for them.

[Lady Heron]

"The problem with that is that libertarianism generally doesn't play well with evangelicals."

Very true.

Really? Aren't evangelical Christians most predominant in America, which is based in part in protecting individual freedom of religion? They don't do too well, as a movement, in more statist countries.

Christians do not like Libertarians because of the moral issue, period. Many of the Republican party's Christians were from the democrat party before they became so morally corrupt that it was impossible for them to stay.

While I have always loved the Republican's conservative economic stance, I would leave them in an instant if they supported gay marriage or abortion, I would never vote for a Rino or a Libertarian, because a leaders morals do matter when determining if he is fit to lead and where he will take us.

Our freedoms depend on our morals and our being able to self govern our actions.