I've grown up in really conservative, Christian environments my entire life. I therefore grew up with the assumption that Christianity and conservativism are one and the same thing. I thought that if I wanted to be a Christian, I had to be a conservative. Then, one day, I wasn't any longer.

I became a southern, Christian Democrat (gasp!).

What a paradox of titles, isn't it?

Southern. Christian. Democrat? What?

I can't say exactly what it was that made me make the conversion to the good ol' donkey party, but it happened. I started thinking differently about things and came to my own conclusions instead of the ones handed to me. I'm not saying that the conclusions handed to me are wrong, but they're just not for me anymore.

Now, since there's already a Christian undertone to this article, I'll bet you're expecting me to make a biblical case for what I believe in. You probably expect me to justify why the democratic party is the Christian party. I'm not going to. I'm going to tell you that there is no Christian political party.

You see, at first I was in distress when I found myself playing left field. I thought, "This is everything I've been taught, this is wrong." But I was taught wrong. Jesus has no political party. He doesn't favor a candidate because they're conservative or liberal.

This may come as a shock, but let's think about it. This is the same guy who refused to be crowned King of Jerusalem. The same one who, when asked about the rule of Rome in Israel, essentially said, "Don't worry about it."

He's never been one to hang himself up on politics. If he didn't want to be king and have complete control on "policy", then why do we think that he is rooting at the edge of his seat for one of our candidates right now?

I don't think that Jesus belongs to a political party.