Charley, I do hope you don't really lump every evangelical Christian in this country with the power-grabbing movement under discussion here. Granted, between the consciously power hungry, and the well-meaning folk who follow them blindly, the numbers are far too dangerously large.
   I was raised pretty much as a fundamentalist, but never quite indoctrinated beyond the "point of no return". I shifted by degrees over the years to a stance as a non-fundamentalist evangelical, realizing that belief in a totally literal and infallible Bible is untenable. Eventually I further realized that it is just as untenable to hold that Christians have a monopoly on morality, spritual truth, or the eternal favor of "God".
   I consider myself a Christian by very liberal definition; I believe in God, in a much less defined sense than I once did, and know I'm still shaped by my Christian background.
   But I still interact regularly with Evangelical Christians, and I can assure you that by no means are all of them in lock-step with the right wing neo-conservative agenda.