I grew up in a family of atheist New England liberals. We went to France every summer butnever to church.My mom divorced my dad even though she would be the first to admit that he was a good father and husband. My family was one of those "go your own way" laissez-faire families and I had always yearned for something larger and more loving. I didn't know it at the time, but I was starting to reject my parents values.
Eventually the Lord led me to a beautiful family-oriented woman was a Christian. She led me to the Lord. That probably started the process. But my wife ended out teaching at an inner-city school. We always knew that we wouldn't let our kids watch MTV, but here was a school where most of the kids came from broken homes and 12 year old girls were having babies. This is what liberalism has done.
So I became a social conservative and then gradually started reevaluating all my economic positions. Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman and other economists showed how the well-intentioned Democratic positions deny opportunity and trap people in poverty. The transformation was complete.
My apologies for the typos - I'm on my lunch break and sneaking a peak at my favorite website so I don't have much time!
Thanks for sharing your story.