Anglican Mainstream

A lot of Britons think that America is on the brink of becoming a theocracy. The media is to blame. Folks like Louis Theroux and Stephen Fry have cashed in on the British taste for American craziness by producing countless documentaries about evangelicalism, while the press zeroes in on abortion and gay marriage as if they are the only issues that Americans care about. One gets the impression that if Rick Santorum wins the presidency, contraception will be banned, gays will go back into the closet and a giant effigy of Richard Dawkins will be burned on the Hill (if the latter does happen, I'll be roasting marshmallows).

 

But the fantasy that America is a Christian Caliphate merely distracts from the UK's own problems – the kind of problems that men like Rick Santorum are right to try to address.