🌐 I’m an Evangelical Democrat, and I’m coming out… Politically Speaking
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February 26, 2026
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I am a Democrat.
Even more…by most metrics, I’m a progressive or liberal Democrat. There, I said it.
My Facebook friends won’t be surprised by this. I haven’t hidden my political orientation, but I’ve also never really publicly proclaimed it. Something is pressure-inducing about the prospect, especially as one who works in evangelical circles. Anyone who watches politics in the United States knows that evangelical and Republican are almost synonymous. That makes it all the stranger when you are an evangelical and not a Republican. Christian Democrats are an oddity to many, and an evangelical Democrat seems an oxymoron....
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