Yes we do. It is fun. Secondly, Gore and company are little, petty and small. Describing something as it is, is a duty at the minimum.
" It just makes us looks small and petty"
Stop worrying about what others think, or worse, feel.
". And we wonder why we have reputations as intolerant hatemongers."
No one here wonders at all, save you. The left controls all the schools, collages, and universities, major media, art and literature and is comradely supported by 99% of non-American socialist politicians and so-called cultural elitists. No one at this site lets anyone, especially the left, define the field of argument.
Lastly, what is wrong with being intolerant or hate? Do you tolerate child molesting? Don't you hate Stalin and Hitler? You really need to buck up a bit. The left will never let you work or please them out of the hole you let them make for you. Quit being a ideological Stockholm syndrome victim of the false paradigm of the left.