PH Jim, many of the people who purport to be liberal on this forum, are the most intolerant and illiberal people that I have ever encountered.
They see everything which is socially conservative, as evil, bigoted, or racist, they have no wish to debate controversial subject as they declare that it gives their opponents "the oxygen of publicity"
They issue death wishes, they use personal attacks on ones family, they stalk throughout the threads........all in all they are exceedingly bad eggs.
Liberalism, is also used by many people as a political weapon and it is effective, no matter the idiocy being advanced by the so called liberals. This use is the antithesis of true liberalism, so whenever I see it brought into play I refer to the perpetrators as "liberal"......liberal in name only.

This problem has all been caused by the confusion of social and political issues......ending in the gridlock we see in American Politics......there is good and bad in both social conservatism and liberalism.