The religious right, except for their Catholic allies, realize that going by the actual name of their brand of Christianity, "Fundamentalism" turns off the vast majority of Protestant Christians, so they changed their name.
All of the mainline Protestant denominations, Prebyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherians, and the Reformed Churches are all "Evangelicals" [Christians dedicated to spreading the "Good News" {Gospel}]. This doesn't mean that Christians me, a member of the Reformed Church in America, are either neo-cons, right-wingers, or even right-to-lifers. The right-wing religious leaders are nearly all extreme Fundamentalists who believe that every word in the Bible is the actual word of God and every thing must be believed exactly as it is writen in an English translation of the Bible. These Fundamentalists represent the wing of Protestantism that accepts anyone who claims to have felt "the call" to become a minister. They have children as young as 4 and 5 years of age claiming to be "called by God" standing in the pulpit and preaching the word.
Main line Protestant Churches require that their ministers have both a BA and a graduate degree in theology. These ministers have to master Hebrew, Greek, and Latin as well as courses in various theological studies. They are not required to hold that every word as translated into English by men after centuries of recopying in the original languages by legions of monks to be the unchangeable words of God.
All a person needs to do is to look at such recent translations of the Bible (not the paraphrased Bibles so popular with the Fundamentalists) such as the New International Version, New American Standard Version, or even the New King James Version and you will see multiple footnotes on each page that give variants on the original meanings of the oldest manuscripts.
Fundamentalists are free to twist the meanings of what they read as the denominations with which they are affiliated have no true governing bodies and need no doctrinal basis for the dribble they issue. They have also sold their souls not to God, but to the Republican Party. But worst of all they have assumed the name of the mainline Christian churches and have caused the members of these Churches to be grouped with their extremism. Words represent ideas and ideas have consequences. We need to be precise with the words we use to describe these wackos. They are Fundamentalists, call them Fundamentalists.