The evangelical obsession with outlawing abortion remains vastly out of step with the majority of Americans, according to new national polling by Pew Research.
A majority of Americans, including most people of faith, support legalized abortion in some form and only 9% want the procedure banned outright, according to a new survey by Public Religion Research Institute.
"One of the greatest pitfalls in much of our biblical interpretation in politics comes when we expect Scripture to answer our questions, rather than receiving the challenging, comforting or convicting word it brings to us."
If you want to understand how that came to be the case, check out On the Road to Armageddon, a 20-year-old book by Baptist historian (and my former church history professor) Timothy P. Weber.