Ok, Maybe Fred wouldn’t have had a say. It doesn’t matter. Fred said he wasn’t supportive of it. Which means he was against it. It hurt Fred big time in the eyes of the evangelicals.
By evangelicals, you mean evangelicals who are politically naive or who believe that style counts more than substance (i.e. RLA, DOMA vs. conservative Supreme Court Justices). I was evangelical before it was cool and I never took a shine to Mr. Mike. Perhaps too much experience with preachers who talk out of both sides of their mouths, yet they have no problem speaking sanctimoniously about minute differences, all the while ignoring their glaring lack of integrity.