I was raised in a really bizarre combination of left-wing political values and right-wing religious values. My father was a staunch CCF/NDP/Tommy-Douglas-inspired Canadian socialist, and my mother was a Labour-Party-voting British immigrant. But both of them were also very traditional religious-fundamentalist types. (However, it should be noted that Tommy Douglas was a christian, and his religious beliefs informed his political beliefs.)
I stuck with the political values, but not the religious ones. I think the main reason I stuck with the political values was that once I left the shelter of my parents' home, I was poor, and at the time the NDP was the party supporting the poor. [The provincial NDP later turned on poor people and used them as scapegoats to try to win support from the more conservative voters, which makes me reluctant to support the provincial branch of their party. But they're still better than the alternative.] Realizing that my sexuality was not heterosexual led me to explore different religious systems, which eventually led me to the left-leaning church I support today.
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Date: 2006-08-18 07:32 pm (UTC)I stuck with the political values, but not the religious ones. I think the main reason I stuck with the political values was that once I left the shelter of my parents' home, I was poor, and at the time the NDP was the party supporting the poor. [The provincial NDP later turned on poor people and used them as scapegoats to try to win support from the more conservative voters, which makes me reluctant to support the provincial branch of their party. But they're still better than the alternative.] Realizing that my sexuality was not heterosexual led me to explore different religious systems, which eventually led me to the left-leaning church I support today.