... we PROUDLY AND CONSISTENTLY stand up for equal rights, it ain't a 'hobby', you are either born with and instilled with it or you ain't ... 

My father is a Republican my mother is a Dem, they BOTH taught us kids right and wrong each and every day.  They aren't perfect people, but they both TRIED.

When dictators/fascists go on the offensive, so do the liberals of the world.  I wrote my history BA thesis on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War.  

Republicans USED TO BE the progressives of their day, which makes modern day Republicans SO DISAPPOINTING.  Republicanism started in Ripon Wisconsin, Little White Schoolhouse, those were religious agrarian PROGRESSIVES.  Lincoln and Jesus would spit in the face of many of today's Republicans and super fakey 'christians' using religion as a method and reason to discriminate.