Evangelical agenda is a term that refers to the political and social objectives of American Evangelical Christianity.
Evangelical Christianity exists in many other parts of the world and may, or may not share similar beliefs and objectives with a particular conservative brand of an American evangelical agenda.
Defining the American "evangelical agenda" is a difficult task, given the large variety of beliefs among American Christians.
Arguably, the Christians making the most noise in the United States today, and who is arguably the most politically powerful block of Christians, are conservative evangelicals.
While there are certainly evangelical Christians who are moderates or even left-leaning, this article will attempt to display the most general characteristics of the conservative fundamentalist evangelicals' political outlook.
In general, conservative-leaning evangelical Christians have traditionally been opposed to all things liberal. The majority of evangelicals align themselves with the right, an association that was established in the 1970s via Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. As such, conservative evangelicals will often vote according to Republican Party endorsements.
Similarly, the GOP is bound and determined to keep their evangelical base happy and will often vote and act according to the beliefs of their evangelical constituents.
Once the Reagan years drew to a close, the group was largely dissolved, although Pat Robertson's group, the "Christian Coalition", that followed, is largely based upon the same principles.
Now the evangelical base of the party has a stranglehold on the Republican Party. Along with the white nationalist, spells disaster for the United States.
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Evangelicals feel their Beliefs should replace, or be the bases
of our laws rather than, the Constitution.
… Here is a blueprint for their agenda.
Education
Homeschooling: Some conservative Evangelicals strive to have homeschooling fully recognized by all levels of government as a fully legitimate form of schooling, regardless of curriculum. They contend that a child's parent(s) are best fit to determine what (if anything) their child learns and at what pace.
Creation science: In the public school forum, some conservative evangelicals want, at the very least, equal time spent in the classroom learning about evolution as about the "theory" of creation. Their motto is to "teach the controversy", despite the fact that not only is the concept of there being a controversy laughable, but also that such a belief would be best suited to religious studies rather than a science class. Unfortunately, several high-profile members of the Republican Party support this item,
School prayer: Some conservative evangelicals are also extremely adamant about the need for government-sanctioned, teacher-led, prayer in school. While there is no outright ban on school prayer (there are only restrictions on teacher-led prayer), Christians often like to claim persecution that they are not allowed in schools. Many evangelicals like to claim that school shootings (most notably at Columbine High School) are a direct result of God being "banned" from schools.
Sex education: Some conservative evangelicals advocate abstinence-only sex education in schools. In their minds, they believe that children are taught as early as kindergarten "how to have sex", an accusation that is far from true.
Middle Eastern Affairs
Israel: Some conservative evangelical Christians support Israel and Israel's right to defend itself. In their minds, Israel holds a special place in God's heart and to support Israel is to support God's Plan. These people view any perceived lack of support of Israel as an outright attack, whether it be cutting back on the billions in aid donated by the United States government or a failure to continually supply Israel with United States military equipment. The Christian Action for Israel website gives several reasons for why some conservative evangelical Christians believe they owe Israel an allegiance, even at the expense of the United States at times.
Separation of Church and State
Most conservative evangelical Christians, strongly believe that there should be no barrier between Church and State. They strongly support the idea that teachers, judges and various other government employees should be able to display the Ten Commandments in their respective rooms. , they are almost always against the acceptance of any other religion but Christianity.
Some conservative evangelical Christians believe that the United States was founded by Christians as a Christian nation (view this video for the facts: Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers), and that by maintaining a separation of Church and State we are failing to live up to the dream that they once had. As such, evangelicals overall view the ACLU as attacking the core values of America in an attempt to destroy it.
Marriage
Conservative evangelical Christians largely view marriage as being between one man and one woman, with no exceptions. They strongly oppose gay marriage, seeing it as disgusting and morally reprehensible.
Some conservative evangelical Christians largely view divorce with distaste, although Jerry Falwell pointed out that there was a certain amount of forgiveness afforded for Ronald Reagan during his presidential elections. Now they forgive Trump for his digressions. These evangelicals will do anything to get what they want. An Evangelical would sell their soul to the Devil to get what they want.
The three temptations of Christ. If Jesus was an evangelical it would have been over after the first temptation. A modern-day version, give me your soul (vote for me) and I'll end abortion.