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I'm unclear what y'all mean when you say we are "scapegoating" evangelicals. Did they not vote for Bush in large numbers? Do they not (mostly) support gay marriage bans? Prayer in schools? Etc.
Evangelicals supported Bush and expect help from him in appointing more conservative SC justices (goodbye Roe v. Wade), passing an anti-gay marriage amendment, etc. What about this is scapegoating? It is self-evidently true.
Sure, some people do not fit that profile but voted for Bush nonetheless. (God only knows why, but so what? It's not the issue at hand.) But my discomfort with the evangelicals (based on their political aims, which I disagree with -- I couldn't care less what they want to believe in their own homes) is completely rational. And the fact that Bush is their boy is a good reason for me to be leary of him.
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