text: Carter's and Reagan's personal religious views are irrelevant. Evangelicals soured on Carter because of his support for the ERA and tolerance of abortion and gay rights. The rise of the Moral Majority and entry of evangelicals as a formidable bloc in the Republican coalition occurred under Reagan, as did promotion of now-familiar themes of culture war against secular humanism, nostalgia for a return to a Christianized past and paranoia about imminent anti-religion authoritarianism. Such sentiments are widely echoed on the Catholic right over 35 years after Reagan.
  
  Differences between the evangelical and Catholic right are not so important as the commonalities that sustain the political alliance and its apocalyptic, Manichean worldview.
  
  I had never heard the term "Catholic Integralist" before but assume it refers to Catholic assimilation of evangelical literalism and militancy.
  
  I agree the piece lacks nuance but it's a polemic that accurately describes troubling features of the RR.