One of my favorite Florence King quotes (paraphrased 'cause I don't have the book nearby) is about WHY she doesn't shout her preference from the rooftops: "I don't mind being called unnatural, perverted and disgusting, but I would just die if people thought I was a Democrat."
Similar item from my family -- many years ago (around 1870) one of my great uncles got thrown out of his Baptist church in SE Alabama - not just for dancing, but for holding a dancing party at his house! (oh, the horror! the horror!)
In the church minute book it said that he was not only disfellowshipped, but was "henceforth to be held as a heathen and a publican."
My dad commented, "Well, just so long as it wasn't a REpublican . . . "