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Michigan Democrat quits politics, says party’s agenda betrayed her faith

April 2, 2026 | | Print Article

A Michigan lawmaker is stepping away from office as she feels she can no longer “reconcile” the Democratic Party with her Christian beliefs.

Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsett told Fox News Digital about her decision and how she found it harder to align with party policies while still holding to her faith. Whitsett announced her “spiritual decision” not to run for re-election in March, after representing Michigan’s 4th House District.

“I don’t understand how ‘Christian’ and ‘Bible’ go together [with] ‘Democratic Party,’” she told Fox News Digital. “What I’ve seen over these last four years is nothing that I’ve ever seen before, nothing that I ever thought would happen before.”

“For me, it is impossible to be a faithful follower of Jesus Christ while remaining a member of the Democratic Party as it exists today. I cannot reconcile that platform with Scripture,” Whitsett told Click on Detroit last month. “I don’t have a heaven or hell to put anyone in. Only God does. But I do have God’s unwavering Word to stand on, and I can no longer compromise it to fit a party platform or to please people.”

“I just sincerely kept asking, please do not back me into a corner. Please do not back me into a corner. Please do not keep pushing the LGBTQ agenda. Please do not keep pushing the abortion agenda,” Whitsett told Fox News Digital.

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“I said, ‘You’re going to keep pushing me, you’re going to back me into a corner, and I’m going to have to stand my ground, and you’re not going to like it,'” she continued.

Her Christian faith led her to decisions that stood in opposition to the party line, including her views on abortion laws.

“I don’t want to go to hell,” she said. “That’s just the bottom line. And right now, people are on that wide path, and you’re compromising, and it’s a very slippery slope.”

Whitsett vocally opposed some of Michigan’s gender policies.

“I’m just a firm believer, and I’m just very blunt about it: I’m not a co-signer of crazy,” she said. “I’m not going to do it. That’s your reality. That’s the world that you want to live in. And I don’t have a problem with that. You can do all of that and be all that you want. But when you try to force it on me and make it my reality, now we have a problem.”

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“They don’t want you to disagree with anything,” Whitsett said of the Democrat Party. “There are numerous things that can be in bills, and they’ll say, ‘ No, don’t do it.’ I’m not going back to my district to say I didn’t vote for something that was beneficial for them. So I had no problem with standing up and taking the vote, and I would be the only one, and I didn’t care.”

The lawmaker made waves in 2020 after thanking President Donald Trump for helping her recover from COVID-19,  crediting the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine.

“God has called me to move in a different direction. And I definitely want to try to lead people back to a biblical foundation,” Whitsett told Fox News Digital.

“I cannot support the Democratic Party,” she added, telling the outlet she could not back a Democratic candidate in the future. “I want people to think for themselves, and right now they’re not doing that. They’re just voting straight Democrat.”

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