As a kid, I read books in school, often assigned by sex-ed teachers, that contained as much factual, boring detail about straight sex as "This book is gay" provides about gay sex.

Boring? To me! Though, I will admit that some of my 13-year-old classmates looked pretty titillated by their straight sex education, dry as it was.

I read the assignments and did the work, but guess what? I'm still gay, which is the reason I found it all boring to begin with.

But I guess the information was useful, because later in life I did raise a straight boy, and I actually remembered back to that information when thinking about how to help him with issues.

But I doubt, frankly, that most Evangelicals will hear you. What they hear instead is this Bible verse: "Raise up a child in the way he should go and he will not depart."

Something that often goes missing in conversations about Evangelicals is the understanding that they are fundamentally superstitious, irrational people. The power of that Bible verse means more to them, mystically, than any information or reasoning ever could.

It's not a coincidence that vaccine deniers are overwhelmingly Evangelical Christians. It's not a coincidence that evolution deniers are overwhelmingly Evangelical Christians.

You can't reason a person out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

Evangelical Christians don't value reason and facts, not for the most part.

So while I "hear" your article as sensible and fact-based, to them, it's just so much lip-flapping. They can't hear you, because their minds work in a fundamentally different way from how yours works.

Which makes Evangelical domination of the Republican Party all the more frightening.