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As many Salon voters have noted in other threads, the Republican Party has played the evangelicals. They've had plenty of time and power to clobber abortion rights and gay citizens. They didn't because these issues have evangelicals voting red. And many of the evangelical pastors have played their congregations, using them to amass wealth, which is a God-damning sin in the Bible. Likewise, the evangelicals think they're playing Jesus, saying his name, but coveting wealth and voting for war.