Most of [Evangelical Christian] society gets it's news via word of mouth ([Sundays] at the [church], or from their family\neighbors.) Those people are informed by a very limited [fundamentalist christian] media with a very specific agenda.
The long and short of it is that they're a bunch of backwards savages bent on spreading their [bronze age--fixed this for you, actually. the neolithic long predates Islam and Christianity. these were bronze age cults] lifestyle to the entire world, so you really shouldn't be surprised by anything they do. Unless they like, acknowledged the [truth of evolution; didn't deny science on a fundamental level], I guess that'd be pretty surprising.