On the American political spectrum, evangelicals traditionally fall under socially conservative. For instance, based on the biblical position that marriage is defined as only between one man and one woman, they tend to oppose state recognition of same-sex marriage and polyamory. Also, based on the principle that the life of a child begins at conception and that a baby's right to live should take precedence over a wish to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, evangelicals tend to oppose laws permitting abortion  (See below for more details). Note that while evangelicals may have conservative cultural values and lifestyles, they rarely seek to actually restrict private behavior of others except where they believe it infringes the rights of others (such as with abortion).

evangelicals are to fundies as Rand Paul is to Ron Paul.  Rand believes the same things as Ron he is just smarter about publicly stating those beliefs.  and has said as much.

 It was the era that followed Watergate Scandal and the 1976 presidential elections that paved the way for the Christian Fundamentalism (and later Christian Evangelism) towards political power. Jimmy Carter won the 1976 presidential elections with a vast support from evangelists. Though he didn't stick to his "evangelist agenda", his victory reflected a great deal of power and influence for Evangelists within the American public.

   The latter was noticed and employed by the Republican Party, whose focus used to be primarily on a conservative economic agenda. In Zakaullah's words, "the Marriage of Economic and Christian Fundamentalisms" took place and led to "A 'Born Again' Republican Party" whose major challenge was "winning the coming 1980 presidential elections."

   Here again, Zakaullah genuinely goes through the 1980's presidential elections campaign to illustrate the rise of Christian Evangelists.  "They realized that in order to unite right wingers of all shades and colors, this agenda would have to encompass economics, morality and pro-family issues as well as being anti-homosexual and anti-abortion. The party strategists knew that they already had the expertise, manpower and networks to promote the pro-market economic agenda but they were also aware that they had neither the expertise, the organization, the networks, nor the volunteers to articulate and sell effectively the pro-family evangelical agenda among the voters... the only way they could succeed was to unite all the fundamentalists across all the religions and denominations."

 Reagan did win the 1980's presidential elections. He was then succeeded by George Bush (sr.). The Republicans realized that "president is not enough because it was the Congress and the bills that make policies" and they even succeeded in having a majority in both houses.

   In its last part, the book discusses the rise of "Christian terror in the ideological war" and even some Christian terrorist organizations, the most dangerous of which is the "Army of God" organization.

   Such movements were justified by the fact that "16 years wait under these presidents ( 1976 - 99 ) did not deliver the goods the frustrations started running high and many radical fundamentalists lost all hope" according to the book.