These attacks on conservatives, conservative Christians, and religious believers promote a false position i.e. that concern about homosexuality and abortion somehow means you are complacent the needy, the mentally incompetent, etc. Such a premise must be refuted every time. Conservative Christians, etc. have been the fundamental driving force behind grass roots efforts for true change from the very beginnings (including the anti-slavery movement, civil rights, etc.) At the same time, contrary to popular mythology and entertainment propaganda - leftist 'progressives' have acted as destroyers of moral stndards, promoters of moral relativism, and frustrators of the genuine social change as they work to implement failed cocepts of founded in socialism and communism rather than supporting a market economy that has in the past permanently and effectively raised the living standards and conditions of the vast majority.
For liberal socialists, it's always a zero-sum game. It's a false premise that they use over and over again. The crowd that excoriates those of us who believe that such things as right and wrong exist for being too 'Manichean,' actually outdoes anyone else on that score. It's just more projection of their own deep-seated self-hatred.
Ever notice that they hold us to standards of proof and certainty that they themselves will not and cannot be held? I love to flip their premises around on them. They always squeal like stuck pigs when I do that.
Absolutely.
Here's one little factoid that StonyBurk will appreciate: The National Council of Churches actually came out in the late sixties and said Jesus was wrong! What they said was that His prediction that the poor would always be with us was made because of "the primitive status of human technology and the scarcity of developed resources." So in other words, God Almighty was mis-educated and victimized by a lack of vision!