is fraught with challenges and, I believe, inappropriate to be expounded from the pulpit. 'The words and actions of many leading figures in the evangelical church offering support to the Republican Party misses one final fact. Many evangelical Christians vote Democrat regardless of what their leaders say. By using the pulpit for something that it is not there to do there is the risk of exacerbating the cleft between what congregation hear and what they do. Tell people to vote, tell congregations to join parties, even help them get information about the parties. But if you cannot do so in a non-partisan manner, keep it out of the pulpit.' Viewing this behaviour from a distance it seems the issues that are highest on many American Christian voters' lists of concerns are abortion and gay marriage, on both of which Obama is more liberal than Romney.  You'd probably find this is the case with a good number of Christian voters in the UK, but the difference is that in the US, Christians are more numerous and the subject of Christianity and belief is a far more important issue in US elections.  The Christian Right in the US have a highly motivated political lobbying machine that has plenty of influence and power.  My problem concerns the narrow set of issues that the Christian right focuses on whilst mostly ignoring or missing what I believe God cares about most. 'Why are evangelicals like Billy Graham and Ralph Reed stumping for Mitt Romney? And