{"id":1724,"date":"2012-11-18T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/11\/the-new-evangelical-agenda.html"},"modified":"2012-11-18T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:31:00","slug":"the-new-evangelical-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/11\/the-new-evangelical-agenda.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Evangelical Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The day after the election, Southern Baptist Seminary President\u00a0Albert Mohler said<\/a>, \u201cI think this was an evangelical disaster.\u201d<\/div>\n
Not really. But it was a disaster for the religious right, which had again tied its faith to the partisan political agenda of the Republican Party \u2014 which did lose the election. But Nov. 6 was an even deeper disaster for the religious right\u2019s leaders, because they will no longer be able to control or easily co-opt the meaning of the term \u201cevangelical.\u201d<\/div>\n
During this election, much of the media continued to use the word as a political term \u2014 as a key constituency of the Republican conservative base. But what the media really means when they use term \u201cevangelical\u201d is \u201cconservative white evangelical.\u201d All other kinds of evangelicals are just never counted.<\/div>\n
Just as the 2012 electoral results finally revealed the demographic transformation of America \u2014 which has been occurring for quite some time \u2014 it also dramatically demonstrated how the meaning of the word \u201cevangelical\u201d is being transformed.<\/div>\n
Evangelical can no longer be accurately used to mean \u201cwhite evangelical.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n
Of the 71 percent (Pew<\/a>,\u00a0CNN<\/a>) of America\u2019s Hispanics who voted for President Barack Obama, the vast majority are either Catholic or Evangelical\/Pentecostal. Obama lost the\u00a0white<\/em>\u00a0Catholic vote, but he won \u201cthe Catholic vote\u201d because of Hispanic Catholics. Similarly, Obama lost the white evangelical vote, but he won the majority of Hispanics who call themselves evangelical or pentecostal. Likewise,\u00a0Obama won<\/a>\u00a093 percent of the African American vote, the majority of whom are members of black churches whose theology is quite evangelical. And 73 percent of the Asian American vote went for Obama, whose churchgoing members are also mostly evangelical.<\/div>\n
Mitt Romney got about the same percentage of white voters that George Herbert Walker did (about59 percent<\/a>\u00a0v.\u00a060 percent<\/a>\u00a0for Bush), which resulted in 426 electoral votes for Bush, but only 206 for Romney.<\/div>\n
So what does all that tell us? Very simply, the majority of the white evangelicals went for Gov. Mitt Romney, and the majority of the non-white evangelicals voted for President Barack Obama. Obamaalso won<\/a>\u00a060 percent of younger voters (ages 18-29) and that likely means\u00a0younger white evangelicals<\/em>\u00a0voted for the president at a higher rate than their parents.\n

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The day after the election, Southern Baptist Seminary President\u00a0Albert Mohler said, \u201cI think this was an evangelical disaster.\u201d Not really. But it was a disaster for the religious right, which had again tied its faith to the partisan political agenda of the Republican Party \u2014 which did lose the election. But Nov. 6 was an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe New Evangelical Agenda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The day after the election, Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler said, "I think this was an evangelical disaster."Not really. 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