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Well, I agree, but there are those who call themselves 'conservative' who really get off on the idea of government beating up on people they dislike but are too cowardly to beat up on themselves; or who want the government to implement a 'Christian' society, or to forcefully bring back a 'Norman Rockwell' America that never existed in the first place.

You have an immensely vivid imagination. It is no more rooted to the reality of Evangelical Christians than Hillary Clinton's mad muttering about the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

[Grut]

It is no more rooted to the reality of Evangelical Christians...

I wasn't thinking of Evangelicals so much as the sort of FR poster who thinks school prayer is dandy so long as it plugs Judeo-Christianity (but never Islam!), or who wants the law never to confict with the Ten Commandments.

I have known some Evangelical Christians who were both tolerable and tolerant; not all of them are that way, unfortunately.