How Should We View Party Loyalty?

Answer: probably not the way you think.

by Rod D. Martin
May 7, 2016

There is always a debate, particularly when things go other than our way, about whether we should be loyal to the political party of our choice. I am asked about this often.

I've been an activist since I was a teenager, at every level of politics, and so I say this as a lifelong Republican and as a "party guy": my loyalty has never, ever, ever been to the Republican Party.

America has a two party system, which saves us from the depredations of a multi-party system, something that everywhere and always is vastly more corrupt and elite-led. Within that context, I am happy to belong to a party that has never had it's own terror wing (as many parties, including the Democrats, have). Indeed, I am happy to belong to a party that has taken the right stand at the right time on many, many things.

But my party is like my church: it's only as good as the sinners who compose it at any given time, not to mention the sinners who lead it.

There are a lot of churches that used …