On Evangelicals and the American Future…

Hurrah for Alan Jacobs at the fabulous American Scene for alerting me to this excerpt from Laura Miller’s new book in which she visits Wheaton College, Illinois. (Wheaton is Billy Graham’s alma mater and the college at which Jacobs teaches.) Miller’s book is about how a religious sceptic can still lose themselves in Narnia, but it’s her comments about evangelicals that concern me here:

I arrived at a different historical moment, just before the midterm elections of 2006 took Republican hubris down several notches. By that time, the GOP had enjoyed control of the White House and Congress for six years. The religious right claimed responsibility for a decisive portion of that electoral success, and was threatening to withdraw its support if it didn’t see more progress on its pet issues: abortion, gay marriage, the injection of religious beliefs into the education system.