Reply #18: those are some strange moral principles

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Why don't they say the same thing about the Republican party? My moral principles are based on Matthew 25

25: 35 "I was hungry and you gave me food" Democrats increasing funding for food stamps

25: 42 "I was hungry and you gave me no food" Republicans voting against more funding for food stamps, and blocking eligible people from getting food stamps ( see: Giuliani, Rudy)

25: 35 "I was a stranger and you took me in; I was naked and you clothed me."

Programs like section 8 housing and Liheap, providing shelter for those unable to provide for themselves - created, expanded and funded by Democrats, opposed by Republicans. Programs like public schools, and headstart, trying to educate people so they can help themselves - opposed by Republicans.

James 2 seems to be an example of Republicans, who have policies that favor the rich at the expense of working people.

James 2: "My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality.
For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come a poor man in filthy clothes, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him "you sit here in a good place" and say to the poor man "you stand there", or "sit here at my footstool." have you not shown partiality among youselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Listen, my beloved brethren: has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called? If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture "you shall love your neighbor as yourself" you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors."

Luke 16: 19 tells the story of a beggar Lazarus and a rich man, traditionally called Dives. How is the Republican party which takes away from people like Lazarus in order to give big tax cuts to people like Dives not against "Christian moral principles"?

If both the Democratic and Republican parties are imperfect, and neither one of them is "God's Own Party" then why wouldn't you want to encourage Christians to be the mustard seed in the Democratic party?