Longtime proud CATHOLIC right-wing member of Free Republic. Not a “Fundamentalist Christian” but proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with any FReepers who are.
Conservatism is not a religion but a set of core values that many believers embrace. Hooah.
Think of it this way: you are a fundamentalist and a Christian.
Gotta represent for the fundamentals!
Catholics can be fundamentalist Christians, too. It simply means that God’s Word is the foundation of one’s belief. There are more complicated and doctrine-laden definitions, of course, because mankind likes to categorize things to death.
As to being “fringe”, liberals might wish their perceptioin were reality but reality is that we are mainstream, although a much smaller mainstream than there used to be.