A sidebar question is how can one be a Christian democrat?
Abortion, same sex marriage and kicking God out of everything is exactly opposite of what a Christian should be.
I have some close friends in my Sunday School class who fall into this category. One married couple were actually hippies in college. We went to high school together and both of them actually had a quite conservative Southern Baptist upbringing. Their families have always been Dems and the husband is now a lawyer. The other male friend is one of those "Christ wants us to take care of the poor" Christians. He is also has a Ph.D. in Biology making him a true believer in evolution and skeptical about many of the miracles described in the Bible. In class discussions, he is always playing "Devil's Advocate" and going on off the wall tangents. I also work with him and have actually had discussions about how the US is going bankrupt. We cannot afford to support able-bodied individuals who choose to live on welfare and Social Security (which he is already receiving) will hot be there in a few years if something is not done. He actually thinks there will always be money for these entitlement programs.