WASHINGTON -- When Joe Carter was little, the preacher at his "small, backwoods fundamentalist congregation" in East Texas knew who the antichrist was, and named names: New England senators, Chinese communists, secular humanists. But no one was worse, the preacher warned, than the pope.
Three decades later, the chasm between evangelical Protestants and Catholics has narrowed as conservatives from both denominations have teamed up on issues from religious school vouchers (pro) to gay marriage (con). And perhaps nowhere has that relationship change been more apparent than in the realm of bioethics.
Carter, now 37, is a good example of the shift, having become something of a name in the blogosphere as author of evangelicaloutpost.com . On the blog, which is made up of one-third bioethics issues, Carter rails against embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, and in vitro fertilization -- causes...