Evangelicals for Mitt

Yes, it is indeed a funny name for any kind of group. Perhaps “Evangelicals in Defense of Mormonism”? But the mission statement should at least provoke some thought for American Evangelicals:

The 2008 election is for president, not pastor…

Political and moral values are informed by — but not the same as — one’s religion…For example, in 1980 voters had two choices: a divorced movie actor who did not regularly attend church and was not on good terms with all of his children, and a once-married Southern Baptist whose evangelicalism was at the core of his national identity. Voting on the basis of whose doctrine was better would have meant electing the second guy — Jimmy Carter — over the first, Ronald Reagan.