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I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

I was raised in the church.

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.