Randall Balmer on evangelical Christianity's close ties to conservative politics

In an article on the Roy Moore scandal in the Salt Lake City, Utah, Deseret News, Religion Department chair Randall Balmer observes that "Evangelical Christianity's close ties to conservative politics are driving people away from the flock. People are looking for other labels to identify themselves with because they find the term 'evangelical' so fraught and associated with things they don't embrace."