Subject: Evangelical hypocrisy on sex escapades of Repubican Candidates: Larry, the old guard evangelicals don't pay much attention to New Testament teachings such as those found in Matthew that focus on social justice. Instead, they rummage around in the Old Testament for passages that support their political agenda, which is out of sync with New Testament principles. The new generation of evangelicals derives direction from the New Testament, which isn't accusatory and exclusionary but reconciliatory and inclusive. • In the late 1960s, "evangelical Christians" were so named to contrast with other Protestant groups that did not do their form of evangelism. Since the late 1970s, the phrase "evangelical Christians" is basically interchangeable with "conservative Christians," and thus some liberal Christians do evangelism but are not evangelical Christians. • Having read the Rev. Jim Wallis' book, "God's Politics," and Columbia University religion professor Randall Balmer's book, "Thy Kingdom Come," I can state that they are not evangelical but liberal Christians who do evangelism. • It is true that by ignoring global warming, evangelical Christians are coming across as being indifferent to the starving people in Third World countries. • As a right-of-center evangelical Christian, it is my opinion that today the key to most evangelical Christian leaders is their extreme hypocrisy in regard to the sex-escapade history of the two top Republican presidential candidates. Charles H

RESPONSE: HUH? You sound pretty damn judgmental to me.