Jesus Camp and What is going on in the US?

Yesterday after Composition class, NB, CS and I (since I can't use real names I used abbreviations) continued our discussion about Jesus Camp and other political and social events going on in the U.S. I have to confess that beyond my opinions I really couldn't participate much in their conversation as it turned political about the liberals versus the conservatives and universal healthcare and who the immigrants and blacks and evangelicalists and mormons would vote for. A lot of this blew over my head although the universal healthcare topic was something I could think about since we talked about it in economics recently and why it would be difficult to implement and the major tax increase that would be required. Then again, most Americans don't like their taxes raised and don't recognize that to get, essentially, free health care they have to pay for it in one way or another. I'm not sure how I feel about universal healthcare, but I think the topic we ended up discussing a lot of is the clash between the liberals and conservatives. The next presidential election is coming up in about a year and I didn't even know who any of the Republican candidates were! That is pretty sad, and I felt especially ignorant as NB and CS talked about who they think has the lead and from what group will they get the most support. In a way it doesn't really matter who the Republican candidate is for me unless he/she turns out to be liberal, but, like that's going to happen. Most of the political stuff I couldn't really contribute to and they noticed I was pretty quiet, although I did enjoy listening to them talk and enlighten me to what is going on now. So they asked me what I wanted to talk about so I brought up teaching creationism in schools and abortion because I feel very strongly about those two topics. When I mean teaching creationism in school I guess I should say, teaching creationism in science class. Teaching creationism is fine, but it should not be taught in science class and should not be put up right next to the theory of evolution. I mean how confusing is that for kids to listen to two different theories of where we originate from. Creationism is totally fine in theology class and if it's put into schools they should offer theology classes so those who want to study creationism or interested about learning about it can. I'm not a believer, I'm an atheist, and I believe that evolution is true so it's difficult for me to understand how anyone can believe in creationism. Creationism to me is as ridiculous as evolution must be to evagelicalists.

I have to go to class now, so I'll end this post with a question that NB presented to me as we talked about college and evangelicals:

What would you do if you got an evangelical roommate?