In the minds of evangelicals, they were
recreating the Puritan's self-exile from England by looking for a purer
and better place, this time not a
geographical "place" but a sanctuary within their minds (and in
inward-looking schools and churches) undisturbed by facts. Like the
Puritans, the post-Roe
(when abortion was made legal) evangelicals (and many other
conservative Christians) withdrew from the mainstream not because they
were forced to but because the society around them was, in their view,
fatally sinful and, worse, addicted to facts rather than to faith. And
yet having dropped out (to use a 1960s phrase), the Evangelicals
nevertheless kept on demanding that regarding "moral" and "family"
matters the society they'd renounced nonetheless had to conform to their
beliefs.
-- Frank Schaeffer, "Send the Bill for the Shutdown to the Religious Right"
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