Teavangelicals are latest incarnation of religious right and Moral Majority cultural movements

If you follow faith and politics, you have no doubt heard of cultural movements like the “religious right” and the “Moral Majority.” Well, let me introduce you to the latest incarnation of those movements. “The teavangelicals” are poised to pack a wallop in the 2012 general election.

I coined the phrase after the midterm elections in 2010 when I realized that the tea party movement was chock-full of conservative Christians. Indeed, surveys show a strong majority of them comprise the tea party. If you “raptured” them from the ranks, you wouldn’t have a serious and full-fledged tea party movement in the first place. Many of them are evangelicals (hence the new term) who believe our debt calamity is immoral and our federal government is obnoxiously unconstrained. They want a return to constitutionally limited government just like tea party Libertarians. They just happen to call it something different. They see it as a return to Judeo-Christian principles based on the belief that our Founding Fathers envisioned a country with limited federal power and the belief that an Almighty God was central to it all.

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