My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.

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