I was raised conservative in a conservative family , in a conservative church and went to a conservative private school . Nothing they said was ultimately backed up by the reality on the ground . Accepting the Lord into your heart isn ' t gonna turn a gay person straight . The war on drugs has not lowered drug use . Private health insurance is not automatically better than state health insurance . That last one cracked me up as everyone in my family loves Medicare and many couldn ' t wait to get on it . All the objective research says our carbon pollution is warming the earth . If anyone was being corrupted by money it ' s the oil and coal companies . Sex isn ' t inherent evil or harmful . Non Christians are perfectly capable of being good people . Anyone who furthered any of these points was said to have a liberal bias . So as far as I can tell objective reality has a liberal bias .