“But maybe I’m misremembering.”
No you’re not. He was a whiney lib. Back then I saw it even before I knew what a whiney liberal was.
He grossed me out.
Yeah, I think you are both right. I recall my conservative parents not liking the waltons for similar reasons. I also recall they loathed ‘Maude.’ I now know that it was for many reasons but particularly the ‘abortion’ episode.