Margaret is a leftist heroine also. And the things about her views that would supposedly embarrass the left turn out to be right up their alley, too.
Tommy Douglas, the primary saint of Canadian socialists, was on record as considering homosexuality to be a mental disease to be understood and treated. He also had a religious background. Many of those long since departed civil rights leaders would cringe at the way the left has distorted their views to support immorality.