If you are on the lookout for wickedness, you have lots of targets in contemporary America. Human trafficking makes millions — and enslaves millions — in our nation each and every day. Violent crime regularly ends lives, as does medical malpractice and drug abuse.
Yet you wouldn't know it based on the headlines we see in mainstream publications. Time and time again, journalists single out evangelicals for immorality. Almost every day, if you employ Google's handy email alerts tool, you can read a story or op-ed about the misguided, foolish, hypocritical and sinful ways of evangelicals.
Consider what William Saletan recently wrote at Slate: "Christianity says you should love the stranger, respect families, honor your wife, and treat all people as children of God" but evangelicals "more than any other constituency, are choosing to ignore those values at the ballot box." The result, according to Mr. Saletan, is not the danger of imposing morality on other Americans. "The problem is that what [evangelicals are] imposing [is] wickedness."
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