Too many leftists use faith as a way to defend themselves and then turn around and use it as a way to be attacking others.
They say that their agenda is an issue of faith and that that is how they show their good works. Where is the merit in doing good if you are forced to do good and you have no choice? If the government takes my money in taxes and gives it away I had no choice, so I have not done anything good by being forced to do 'good.' You only do good when you have made a choice to do good. When I choose to give money to charity, then I do good. Not when the government does it for me.
That is real choice. Otherways cannot be virtueous.
I am reminded of when Clinton said that people should not get their taxes back because they might not spend it right. He thinks he knows so much better than we do how to use our own money.
Our faith in our own ways is so much less than if we had faith in THEM to make our decisions for us.
Leftists want the only faith to be in the state and Church and family stand in the way of that. So the left wage a war on church and family and personal initiative any anything that would make the state not the most important thing.
Buddha Bless the USA