State of American Church

Perhaps I need to narrow this focus and be somewhat specific. I grew up and have live all my life south of the Mason-Dixon line. I also grew up in southern Protestantism. So I can only speak to southern, Protestant Christianity. With that disclaimer:
I believe the church has lost its soul and been taken over by the culture and become synonymous with the culture. (I am reflecting on what happened to the church under the Third Reich and how it came to endorse/baptize the horrors of that era.) For justification or rationale for my statement I turn to two examples: Southern Baptists and the Tea Party movement.
First Southern Baptists. They began in 1845 in direct response to the slavery question and their history has been one of racial prejudice and discrimination. I witnessed this first hand in the 60s. I know they have just elected an African American to a leadership role, but that is late, insincere, and of little consequence. It is a group that is anti-feminine, refusing the office of pastor to women. It is anti-intellectual, continuing to read the Bible literally despite modern science, historical awareness, and literary criticism. They continue to deny biological evolution and (for many) global warming just as two examples. They are anti-abortion while endorsing capital punishment and provide some of the strongest pro-military support of US policy. That church has succombed to the ignorance, prejudice, and militarism of the culture.
The Tea Party. According to the Bloomberg National Poll in 2010, the Tea Party is: 40% over 55, 79% white, 61% male, and 44% claim to be "born again Christian." It espouses a libertarian (anti-Christian) philosophy based on the philosophy of an atheist who claimed selfishness is a moral value, a laissez faire economic theory centuries old and unworkable in the 21st century (our society and world are far too complex to leave everyone to do "what is right in their own hearts"). It is telling that one of their objectives is to eliminate the Dept. of Education! Again, anti-intellectual, rabid individualism, irrational militarism, unchecked selfishness. All this time they claim overwhelmingly to be Christian and the church goes along or remains silent.
Can or will Christians reclaim the moral ground abdicated to these perversions?