How have you shifted politically and religiously?

[TJ in Oregon]

Politically: The only three issues I've clearly changed my mind on over the years are legalized gambling and capital punishment, both of which I start out in favor of and switched to being against. I have slowly become less interventionist as I watched the Iraq War fall apart and quite a bit more skeptical about going to war than I once would have been. I think I've become more communitarian than I was in high school for certain, although I suspect the decision to move to Madison may be subtly pushing my economic views to the right.

Religiously: I was raised Catholic, so no overt changes there, although I have definitely become more religious since high school when I was basically going through the motions. There was about a four year period in there when I never went to confession, so I definitely can't claim that wasn't something of a lapse. After my freshman year of college, I spent the summer doing manual labor and do some thinking about the priorities in my life, and I became more devout since then.