The end of a political monopoly?

Story and photo here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/12/124522/832

I am a woman of faith.

I am also a Democrat.

It is ironic to me that because I am a Christ follower it is assumed that I am also a Republican. Likewise, if I identify myself as a democrat it is assumed that I cannot be an evangelical Christian. Yet I am both.

I do not believe that my love for Christ obligates me to carry a big whomping stick to bash pro-choice advocates and homosexuals any more than I believe the American constitution should condone discrimination, or limit a woman's right to choose.

I have chosen a different way. I have chosen the way of love, over the rule of law.

So many Christians seem to live their lives believing that it is their love for Christ that unites, strengthens and empowers. They use Christ and Holy Scripture as their own spiritual whomping stick to bludgeon the weak, the vulnerable, and the unloved into submission to their own way of believing.

I, on the other hand, believe that it is Christ's love for each of us that is the true source of unity, power and strength. I believe that Christ loves the saved and unsaved; the pro-abortion advocates and pro-life; the heterosexuals and the homosexual. His love for us, is the precious thread that weaves all lives together into a beautiful tapestry which transcends both time and space.

Scripture is clear. Christ has commanded me to love our God, to love myself and to love my neighbors.

This isn't an easy path; but I am pleased at least, to see that it is a path no longer monopolised by the Republican party.