The best way to answer that is this way: the TP movement was started as a reaction to government gone wild - spending, instrusion, bureaucratic control, and taking from the producers and giving to the takers. The Santelli rant was over a mortgage program making payers foot the bill for the derelict mortgage clients. That ignited a building movement, that started 3 years or so earlier with frustration with Bush/Hastert/Frist spending and then really reaching critical mass with Obama’s election and his Obama Care dreams on the horizon - with of course TARP and Stimulus and GM Bail outs along the way. It had almost nothing to do with social issues at this point. It built on the Town Hall obama care protests.
But of course, a lot of people got swept up in it who never saw the Santelli performance and didn’t really know how it started. And, naturally, many of these limited gov folks were Christians. As you said, that is the core audience. Some others were hard core Paul bots. That group had been early to the anti Bush movement. Others still were part of that shifting sand world known as Glenbeckistan.
As some of them wanted to start their local chapters, etc, they put their preferred issues on it, and often, in the small local chapters, those were social issues. In some othrs, it was the more secular libertine type emphases. Most, especially the bigs, were more in the Santelli anti obama care anti big gov mold - which is true to how it was started IMO.
Whatever you were answering, that wasn’t a good one.
What was the question that you were answering?