It's about evangelism, evangelicals, and why they are so dangerous

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32. The problem is that they have the ear, or are actually political leaders within the Republican Party

There was a time when right wing evangelicals were a fringe group and up until the 1960's and 1970's had stayed out of politics, but since then with the Falwell's and Swaggart's, the FRC, TBN and Conservative Catholic groups joining the Conservative Coalition along with White Supremacists, that fringe has a big influence on the Republican Party.

Numbers are small but because actual Conservative numbers are kind of small, they are a loud part of the Conservative coalition and they are here for there pony, like the White Supremacists that the Conservatives have been playing footsies with the last few decades.

It has less to do with Religion than with Political Ideology. Religion is just the hook they use to bring along the foot soldiers. It is more convincing when God is telling you to do it, to avoid the fires of hell, than if some rich person is telling you to do it to give them more power over everyone including YOU.