You’ve heard of tea partiers, but what about ‘teavangelicals’?
That’s the term Christian Broadcasting Network chief political correspondent David Brody ascribes to evangelicals allied with the tea party movement in his new book, “Teavangelicals: The Inside Story of How Evangelicals and the Tea Party are Taking Back America.”
“Teavangelicals are conservative Christians, mostly evangelicals who agree with the tea party movement and have joined the cause,” he explained to The Daily Caller.
“They’ve done so for various reasons, but the bottom line is they see our severe fiscal situation through a biblical worldview believing that that God’s Word speaks about the immorality of the debt, a return to fiscal responsibility and that that the all-powerful federal government is in many ways replacing God in people’s lives as being the most powerful force in it.”
Though Brody says Mitt Romney was not teavangelicals’ first choice for the Republican nomination, he argues that the former Massachusetts governor will be the beneficiary of their dislike for President Obama.
“Teavangelicals simply don’t like President Obama’s policies, and they have a real palpable fear that if he is re-elected in 2012, that America will be changed forever for the worse,” Brody said.
“Romney ends up being the luckiest guy in the world because he doesn’t have to do too much to get teavangelicals all riled up for the 2012 general election. President Obama has done a lot of the work for him.”
As evangelical Christians, do teavangelicals have any problem with Romney’s Mormonism?
“Let’s be clear: there is a small portion of the teavangelical electorate that has a real problem with Romney’s Mormonism and just won’t vote for him no matter what,” Brody said.
“However, most teavangelicals have an even bigger problem with President Obama’s agenda, which they believe is scary and downright dangerous for the future of this country.”
Check out TheDC’s full interview with Brody about his book, where teavangelicals stand on foreign policy and whether they believe social issues are more important than economic issues:
What are ‘teavangelicals’ and what do they stand for?
Teavangelicals are conservative Christians, mostly evangelicals who agree with the tea party movement and have joined the cause. They’ve done so for various reasons but the bottom line is they see our severe fiscal situation through a biblical worldview believing that that God’s word speaks about the immorality of the debt, a return to fiscal responsibility and that that the all-powerful federal government is in many ways replacing God in people’s lives as being the most powerful force in it.
How are they associated with the tea party?
The tea party wants to return to constitutionally limited government, and guess what? Teavangelicals want that as well, but they happen to call it something else: a return to Judeo-Christian principles. They are breaking bread with the tea party because both libertarians and evangelicals view the U.S. Constitution in much the same way our Founding Fathers did. That is, a belief in a limited view of the federal government’s power and a strong belief in the Almighty God.
