This is exactly why I've come to distrust the left. When I was younger, and, as Churchill would say, "had a heart", progressive causes appealed to me - who could oppose gay rights or women's rights or worker's rights? But the fact that liberals are so quick to hyperbole and so quick to dismiss any criticism - no matter how legitimate or reasonable - as prejudice, makes me suspect that deep down, they're hiding something and that they have a (not very well) hidden agenda.