By Dwight Longenecker, The Stream, December 12, 2023
Fr. Dwight Longenecker is the pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, South Carolina. His latest book The Way of the Wilderness Warrior uses the classical hero’s quest to give a plan for spiritual growth.
Through the years Christian voters have been attracted to the Democratic Party because the Democrats seemed to stand up for the little guy — the workers, the immigrants, the minorities and the poor.
In the 1970s Peter Sonski — from a blue collar Catholic family — registered as a Democrat because that party’s values seemed aligned with his own concern for the working class, the poor, the marginalized and the needy.
On the other side of the political battleground, many Christians were traditionally attracted to the Republicans because the GOP seemed to stand for traditional family values, seemed better on pro-life issues and upheld patriotic and conservative moral choices. …
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