Michael Wear
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Mar
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You know, as I travel the country, people are often surprised to find that just because they register as a Democrat or Republican doesn't mean that you need to agree with every jot and tittle of the party.
Like, like, like, like, actually, one of the our political parties are supposed to serve everybody.
as a vehicle for mediating difference, not just between the two parties, but within the party itself.
And so that is just a critical role that Martin Luther King used to talk about faith as a thermostat.
It can change the temperature as opposed to just reflecting back and reading the temperature of a room.
And that's what faith can do at its best.
I think it is both parties read faith and sort of their interest in faith.
They read it as to their advantage to sort of claim affiliation and representation, but very little exchange there.
And so, you know, you say, well, I agree with this tradition on this issue.
And so therefore, you know, I, you know, this is a politician, you know, I, they have to vote for me.
You know, I ran religious outreach for a presidential campaign.
And one thing I noticed looking at the history of religious outreach in American politics is like the easiest way to
And the most manipulative way and the most common way as I was coming to the job to see is, you know, the easiest way to do faith outreach is to say, well, if you're a real Christian,
You'll vote for my candidate and vote against the other candidate.
And so it's an appeal to identity.
And I think that's really misguided.
I think religious people are wrong to respond to it.
in the way that some do.
And I think it leads public leaders to actually miss out on much of what they have to gain from learning from religious communities and traditions.
So instead of looking to sort of like claim religious voters claim, uh, uh,
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