The evangelicals gravitate toward Catholics due largely because of perceived power an influence of our church in the political sphere. Power is what the evangelicals want more than resolution of cultural issues. If we were not influential we would be easily ignored as just another 'cult'. The symbiosis of conservatives from other traditions making common cause with Catholics ostensibly over certain cultural issues keeps those issues front and center and gives them more outsize influence than they would otherwise receive. This alliance is one of the reasons for the protracted culture wars. Without this alliance perhaps we could have been able to find common ground and work together for the common good settling some very divisive issues in the process or at least making peace through tolerance.