[BarbM]

Being a Catholic, I found evangelical means: moral is what ever you want it to be at this time: divorce, shacking up, abortion, gay marriage, gay ministers, tattoo...

I always ask what kind of Evangelical. I like the conservative ones. The ones that are bible based and preach the Truth.

[stars & stripes forever]

Being a Catholic, I found evangelical means: moral is what ever you want it to be at this time: divorce, shacking up, abortion, gay marriage, gay ministers, tattoo...

Better check out the plank in your own eye first.

[Colofornian]

Being a Catholic, I found evangelical means: moral is what ever you want it to be at this time: divorce, shacking up, abortion, gay marriage, gay ministers, tattoo...I always ask what kind of Evangelical. I like the conservative ones. The ones that are bible based and preach the Truth.

Well, frankly, what's been problematic for the "Evangelical" "brand" is that there's one mainline denomination -- the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America -- which isn't even the 4th most conservative Lutheran branch. It is in fact, quite liberal.

* It pays for abortion coverage in its insurance for its churchworkers;
* It voted (barely) to accept homosexual pastors;
* The late-term abortionist in Wichita (Tiller) -- was an usher at an ELCA church;
* The BTK (Bind-Torture-Kill) serial killer in Kansas was the lay president of an ELCA church;
* And the Aurora mass murderer (Holmes) -- had a family who attended an ELCA church in North San Diego County...altho because of its liberalism, that Lutheran church has now (thankfully) left the ELCA to join another more conservative Lutheran denomination.

So I can understand your "image" of some Evangelicals.

I can assure you, tho, that the ELCA is far from representing "Evangelicalism"...

Now I'm not saying that divorce isn't rampant in some Evangelical circles (I'm sure it is). But beyond the ELCA, I don't know of Evangelical denoms or churches which sanction homosexual marriages or abortion.

So please don't size up "Evangelicals" by what one unEvangelical denom has been doing...

[firebrand]

“Evangelical” means praying, reading the Bible, going to church, and spreading the word of the Gospel. That’s it. Stop attaching your amoral and immoral meanings to it.