Good point, mouse... Yeah, the evangelicals believe that it is our Christain duty to help those less fortunate... And, yeah, churches do alot of the heavy lifting but at the end of the day the churches are no match for a nation with 35 million (minimum) people living in poverty... So enter "the government"... Food Satmsp and Fuel Assistence and Section VIII Housing and, and... All worthy in the teachings of Jesus, who BTW would be a big time leftie if He were among US today...

But the other issue where the evangelicals join with the left is on taking care of our planet... Many have become pretty striong environmentalists... But I'm talkin' about folks who truely believe...

The problem is that there is a split within the right... You have the knothead Tea Party people you are just plain ignorant and willing to follow Sarah Palin to the gates of hell and then you have learned Christains who spend time with their Bible everyday and have gotten beyond the Old testament and are trying to live lives that Jesus called for them to live and they are in a major quandry these days... To their right are knotheads and to their the left, ahhhhhh, some very suspicious people who they ***have heard*** are all heathens???

Messed up little deal they have goin'...

B~