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map. One consequence is that the Deep South, which has the largest concentration of evangelicals in the country, is pretty underrepresented. One might well find that evangelicals who live in university communities have higher educational attainments, etc., than other evangelicals. A second issue is how the researchers found the particular evangelicals in their locale to interview. We aren’t told, but in the Acknowledgments Smith thanks the pastors who ‘in many cases’ granted the researchers access to the interviewees. So it is quite plausible that the investigators contacted the pastors of conservative Protestant churches in their area, and the pastors selected—at least to some extent—the evangelicals to be interviewed. That makes it potentially a very biased and misleading sample.”

58.

Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson, Blinded by Might: Can the Religious Right Save America? (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1999), 191.

59.

Ibid., 52, 58, 59.

60.

Ibid., 54.

61.

Ibid., 55, 56.

62.

Jimmy Carter, Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 2–3.

63.

Ibid., 34–35.

64.

Ibid., 100–101.

65.

Ibid., 88.

66.

Paul Jalsevac, “Bush Appoints a Pro-Lifer to the UN,” The Interim (July 2004) at http://www.theinterim.com/2004/july/17bushappoints.html.

67.

John C. Danforth, “Onward, Moderate Christian Soldiers,” New York Times (June 17, 2005), A-27.

68.

Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 147.

69.

Robert Boston, The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996), 25.

70.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State, “Religious Leader Approves of Sending ‘Squads’ to ‘Take Out’ Foreign Leaders” at http://www.au.org/site/News2? JServSessionIdr005=1uj2ym0jp3.app5b&abbr=pr& page=NewsArticle&id=6179&news_iv_ctrl=1477.

71.

Boston, The Most Dangerous Man in America?, 164.

72.

Ibid., 164, 165.

73.

Ibid., 39.

74.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State, “TV Preacher Pat Robertson Suggests God Removed Israeli Leader Sharon Because of Land Policies” (January 5, 2006) at http://www.au.org/site/News2? JServSessionIdr 006=94g6kp2dr2.app13a&abbr=pr&page=NewsArticle&id=7782&security=1002&news_iv_ ctrl=1241.

75.

David Van Biema, “What Was Robertson Thinking? With a $50 million partnership hanging in the balance, Robertson tries to make amends for his insensitive comments toward Israel,” Time (January 13, 2006) at http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,1149156,00.html.

76.

Boston, The Most Dangerous Man in America?, 39.