"Evangelical": generally, that means part of, pertaining to, or the preaching of the Gospel. A PSA I received in today's generic mass-mailing including my name informs me a new definition may exist.
 
Today, "evangelical" is used by some as if a New Age Christian banner; as if they are the true and exclusive authority on theology, and everyone else cannot possibly be preaching the Gospel at all...um, sounds not very democratic, religiously or secularly.
 
Among those so opining appears to be the "Evangelical Climate Initiative", which says only those who believe global warming is real can truly be children of God, Christian or not, all others vessels of wrath; further, that the only good works needed are amazingly similar to those already accomplished in the USA re emissions controls...from there on, God will provide, and only those interfering with officials exporting the fight for global emission checks will suffer horribly in personal lives, be poor, or otherwise incur woe.
 
It's like asking me to believe that if I'm told I have no right to earn income or practice religion or whatever and also have a cold, as long as officials see to it my tangential issue of a cold (real or imaginary) is fixed, all good works are fulfilled...and though political/legal redlining would still confront me, God will punish me if I do anything any official or "evangelical" prefer I not.
 
In fairness, I'll leave it New Age "evangelicals" to opine if that's truly what's meant, and if they believe all anybody, including God, has ever cared about is say-so powers to officials as His peers so that a never-ending world regenerating itself via "Big Bangs" won't keep doing its eons-old thing...all Big Bangs have to trace back to a single source, matter itself not ab initio spontaneously generating, so where did that come from if not a Creator, and that first world sure has kept renewing itself in space. I'm the type of old-school evangelical who doesn't doubt God and Heaven exist under all the talk, and so I don't lock myself to uber-attachment beyond reason to worldly ambitions..."what'll we do if global warming isn't all we worry of, it's our only world"....that's Christian philosophy, is it?
 
As to Lake County Illinois Comcast about two weeks ago joining ranks this year with other cable systems dropping EWTN, the Global Catholic Network which gives its programming for free and pays little or no fees, I don't think it's a thirst for the PAID programs still on Comcast which reduce the New Testament to "you're saved without good works for accepting Jesus as Lord, all you have to do to not incur God's wrath is seed-tithe to your televangelist who openly admits (at least ) he's gonna use it on himself only...you want God's adman to look good so other souls can be so saved, right?"; nor do I think many shun EWTN-type universal application of faith, citations to good works, and higher commitment of "seed" as one might find if they knew about or spoke more about, say, the Beatitudes of Jesus, or His other words directly.
 
This Labor Day, 2008, I was part of the Lake County Right To LIfe unit in the Zion Illinois Labor Day parade; at the front was a big float for Roman Catholic Our Lady Of Humility, at the end was our Right To Life unit. Nothing but applause for OLHC, and many other entries; a total of one heckler against Right To Life; and we ran out of thousands of stickers and collateral before we made it halfway through! So many diverse people standing specially to salute, cheer, and encourage us, all the way to the last parade review seat...one senior veteran in VFW gear and hat stood to salute as we passed, and I returned that salute. A number of people asked me if I'd heard why EWTN had been yanked, especially for seniors and shut-ins losing out on the only Masses they can make, and I said I did not have a Comcast reply.
 
Also in today's mail was a Comcast reply to that question, and I here cite it verbatim in its entirety: "The Executive Customer Relations Department is following up with you regarding your Comcast accounts. Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful in our attempts to contact you. If you should require assistance in the future regarding Comcast products and services, please call our Chicago Customer Care Center on their toll free number (here omitted)". There you go...a truly Illinois way of answering: invidiously infer through unsigned text the recipient is a loon deadbeat who must've been disconnected to why believe the loser...EWTN's still on, nyahhhh...it's just unconnected deadbeats ain't gettin' it, sees? Probably, EWTN conflicts with cable operators' "evangelicals"...who all PAY to put their shows on...in some coincidental "saved by Christ AND good works/saved by Christ and just sending cash to the preacher" tension.
 
In summation, try as I might, I earnestly report I can find nowhere near manifest majority support in my locality for so-called evangelical liberalism, including euthanasia of full-term or older persons as if any mom or bin Laden can "retro bort" on personal or theologic whim. Myself, I'm still trying to factor how on one one hand many politicians want to legislate away non-evangelical liberal relgion strands for treating homosexuality as if just a learned/reflexive post-birth response to stimulus, and on the other insist that all children third grade up must be taught to experiment with homosexuality or they'll never learn it...ah, the contradictions in an environment full of contradictory mere expedients, detached from everything except will to rule.