A Texas congressional candidate running in a special election is promoting herself as a faith-first Democrat, even though she wrote a book that pans evangelical voters.
Dr. Lydia Bean, a Harvard-trained sociologist and community organizer, is the Democratic frontrunner in a special election in Texas’s Sixth Congressional District. Bean touts herself as a religious progressive, having founded a nonprofit organization devoted to faith-based political engagement.
“My faith and my family taught me to stand up for what’s right,” Bean said in her campaign kickoff video.
Bean, however, roundly criticized evangelicals in her 2014 book, The Politics of Evangelical Identity, which studied the voting and political decisions made by members of evangelical churches. In her introduction, she wrote, “There is some evidence for the view that right wing activists co-opted evangelical institutions.” She called the rhetoric used by one church she attended “combative” and wrote that it could seem “violent,” though she also listed some positives about the church. And she accused the broader evangelical community of putting politics on the same level as their faith.
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