Evangelical Elites and Faith-based Foreign Affairs
Kevin den Dulk Wednesday, 1 March 2006
In the immediate wake of the 2004 elections commentators were in near unanimous agreement that the "values voter" had won the day. Conventional wisdom holds that these voters, and particularly traditionalist evangelicals, were motivated primarily by domestic policy concerns, chief among them old standbys like abortion, indecency, and gambling, as well as newer policy areas like same-sex marriage. Evangelical energies were focused on these and similar issues during President Bush's first term and the 2004 campaign, as they have been since the emergence of the so-called "Christian Right" movement in the early 1980s. My question in this article, however, is whether similar values-based concerns motivated evangelicals during Bush's first term to advance a foreign policy agenda—and if so, to what effect.
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