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In reply to the discussion: I can not have a friend who is a Republican.. [View all]Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)on your personal experience. Of course, one is expected to give people the benefit of the doubt regardless of politics but I don't judge others who decide to avoid conservatives if they've had consistently unproductive or even damaging relations with them in the past.
I am still able to see the genuine desire in some conservatives to do good, particularly when they reach out to help someone in a true example of the Christ they are supposed to follow. But I'm not going to pretend I'm compatible as a friend with someone when I'm not. It's a diservice to them and it's a diservice to myself.
So I don't buy the implication of some that it's a moral crime to never befriend a conservative. It doesn't imply hate. It merely implies incompatibility.