Reply #25: At 3 I was at the "I have a Dream" speech by MLK Jr, my parents took

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me; from then on, they hauled me to anti-war marches, sit-ins, building occupations on college campuses, civil-rights marches, all kinds of stuff. My dad was a Lutheran pastor, and every political activity in which they got involved was in the context of Christian community: we are doing this because we are believers, and many of the people we met or were with on these adventures were also Christian. My faith and my politics are inextricably linked. My childhood is the main reason I am politically active now, and why I can't help but think of Republicanism and Christianity as mutually exclusive.